The Sprawl

Praise for Jason Diamond “Tells a heartbreaking story of restless youth, imposter syndrome, and the movies that help him make sense of it all. . . . Makes me want to tell my parents and children how much I love them . . . and then curl up on the couch and watch The Breakfast Club.” —Emma Straub, author of the New York Times bestsellers Modern Lovers and The Vacationers “With geniality, humor and charm, Diamond explores the ways in which cinematic fantasy can influence, overshadow, and help us to escape reality. This book is for anyone playing out an eternal adolescence.” —Melissa Broder, author of So Sad Today “Jason Diamond writes with equal parts wit and candor about what happens when life diverges wildly from the suburban fairy tales made popular by John Hughes. Diamond passionately conveys how lovely it is when we find less cinematic but harder earned happy endings on our own terms.” —Maris Kreizman, author of Slaughterhouse 90210 “Oh look, it’s all my favorite things in one book: Chicago, New York City, punk rock, food, and existential crises...Bittersweet, charming and hilarious...details the longing and struggle of an aspiring writer with clarity, wit, and heart.” —Jami Attenberg, New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins and Saint Mazie “Both funny and heartbreaking, Diamond’s memoir is not just an account of how one director’s films impacted-and perhaps saved-his life. It is also a memorable reflection on what it means to let go of the past and grow up. A quirkily intelligent memoir of finding oneself in movies.” —Kirkus

Vorwort
Endorsements (potential): Hanif Abdurraqib, Anne Helen Peterson, Jia Tolentino, Michael Chabon
Early access copies
5-city author tour
National print, radio, and online campaign
Targeted bookseller mailing
Promotion at: AWP, BEA
Promotion on Coffee House Press e-­newsletter, website, and social media channels
Giveaways on Twitter, Instagram, & Goodreads
Simultaneous print and e­book release, with e­book ISBN to be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and whenever print ISBN is listed
Targeted publicity to promote author's speaking engagements


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

Klappentext
From garage rock to Greta Gerwig, Jason Diamond asks us to reconsider the creative potential of the American suburb as he leads us down the cul-de-sac and out again.

Zusammenfassung
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.

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