The Sprawl, Jason Diamond
The Sprawl, Jason Diamond
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The Sprawl
Reconsidering the Weird American Suburbs

Author: Jason Diamond

Narrator: Peter Lerman

Unabridged: 9 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/17/2020


Synopsis

For decades the suburbs have been where art happens despite: despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. Time and again, the story is one of gems formed under pressure and that resentment of the suburbs is the key ingredient for creative transcendence. But what if, contrary to that, the suburb has actually been an incubator for distinctly American art, as positively and as surely as in any other cultural hothouse? Mixing personal experience, cultural reportage, and history while rejecting clichés and pieties and these essays stretch across the country in an effort to show that this uniquely American milieu deserves another look.

About Jason Diamond

Jason Diamond is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. His first book was Searching for John Hughes.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kristy on September 08, 2017

I've read a lot of Powered by the Apocalypse books, and I admit I'm not a huge Cyberpunk aficionado. I picked up a copy of this to read to prepare for a game a friend of mine is running for our podcast, Perilous Pretenders. I have played a game of Shadowrun Anarchy, which is supposed to be Shadowrun......more

Goodreads review by John on July 31, 2024

Cyberpunk roleplaying powered by the apocalypse (that's using the Apocalypse World engine as its core rules). The game seems to be based more on the mission based play of Shadowrun than on cyberpunk literature, which I think is a plus given how successful that style of play has been over the years.......more

Goodreads review by Nicolas on December 11, 2017

Une excellente découverte que The Sprawl. Je ne suis pas très à l'aise avec le cyberpunk, mais la façon dont le genre est abordé ici permet de vraiment s'approprier le setting au fur et à mesure, en modulant selon les aspirations de la table. Surtout, le système propose des mécanismes très intéressan......more

Goodreads review by Ivan on April 09, 2023

This is a great powered-by-the-apocalypse roleplaying game. The rules are well thought out and evocative of a cyberpunk setting, it has a good index and table of contents. There are a handful of rules that could have used some clarification as a first-time player of a PbtA system. It was easy to fin......more

Goodreads review by Philip on May 13, 2018

Good game, excellent setting, well written.......more