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POSTCARDS FROM THE END OF AMERICA

Linh Dinh

Roaming the country by bus and train, on a budget and without any institutional support, Linh Dinh set out to document, in words and pictures, what life is like for people. From Los Angeles, Cheyenne, Portland, and New Orleans to Jackson and Wolf Point - Dinh walked miles and miles through unfamiliar neighborhoods, talking to whoever would talk to him: the homeless living in tent cities, the peddlers, the protesters, the public preachers, the prostitutes. With the uncompromising eye of a Walker Evans or a Dorothea Lange, and the indomitable, forthright prose of a modern-day Nelson Algren or James Agee, Dinh documents the appalling and the absurd with warmth and honesty, giving voice to America's often forgotten citizens and championing the awesome strength it takes to survive for those on the bottom.

Growing out of a photo and political writing blog Dinh has maintained since
2009, Postcards from the End of America is an unflinching diary of what Dinh sees as the accelerating collapse of America. Tracking the economic, political, and social unravelingfrom the casinos to the abandoned factories and over all the sidewalks in betweenwith a poet's incisive tongue, Dinh shows us the uncanny power of the people in the face of societal Devastation.

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Book Published 2017-01-01 by Seven Stories Press

Comments

If this nation's ego is represented by the politicians, then its collective unconscious is riding in the seat next to Linh Dinh's on the Greyhound bus, or slumping on the neighboring stool in the dive bar. In these - what do we call them? new-journalist epistles? prose poems? revelatory philippics? absurdist love letters? - Dinh introduces us to the legion of people not encompassed by any candidate's plan for economic recovery. This book is a howl of joy and a laugh of despair. -- Matthew Sharpe, author of Jamestown and The Sleeping Father

Linh Dinh's Postcards from the End of America is a collection of some of the most brilliant observations penned on the terminal decline of the American empire. He gives a voice to those rendered invisible by a bankrupt corporate press. He has an unflinching honesty, refusing to romanticize the poor while also writing with great empathy about their lives. He lays bare the predatory evil of corporate capitalism, the death of liberty engendered by our security and surveillance state and the human cost of our system of inverted totalitarianism. He would make George Orwell or Joseph Roth proud. There are few writers in America I admire more. -- Chris Hedges, author of Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt

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