{"product_id":"city-by-city-dispatches-from-the-american-metropolis-paperback","title":"City by City: Dispatches from the American Metropolis - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKeith Gessen\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eStephen Squibb\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom its first shock waves in 2008, the Great Recession has been reshaping American cities. Detroit collapsed, and the ongoing national rollback in industry has meant the death of factory towns like Greensboro, North Carolina and Reading, Pennsylvania. But the effects of the crash have been far from uniform. The populations of gentrifying cities such as San Francisco and Brooklyn continue to expand, with rents soaring and neighborhood demographics changing overnight. Providence, Rhode Island is experiencing a civic renaissance that disguises lingering corruption in its political system. The two hundred citizens of Whittier, Alaska, have been approached about starring in a reality TV show. And racial profiling by police in cities like Cincinnati, Palm Coast, and Baltimore has set the stage for protests that have swept the nation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCity by City\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Keith Gessen and Stephen Squibb, is a collection of essays from a new generation of writers working to document the places they call home. With the specificity of Studs Terkel and the humor of Hunter S. Thompson, they capture the forces-gentrification, underemployment, politics, culture, and crime-that are changing the lives of their neighborhoods, their neighbors, and themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKeith Gessen\u003c\/b\u003e is a founding editor of \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of \u003ci\u003eAll the Sad Young Literary Men\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the editor of \u003ci\u003eDiary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager\u003c\/i\u003e and Kirill Medvedev's \u003ci\u003eIt's No Good: Poems, Essays, Manifestoes\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eStephen Squibb\u003c\/b\u003e is a graduate student in English at Harvard University. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ee-flux journal\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 12, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759210234144,"sku":"9780865478312","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0dd4701f8a158e3aa598cb37269fe336.webp?v=1780145561","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/city-by-city-dispatches-from-the-american-metropolis-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}