Jeff Sharlet
@JeffSharlet
NYT Bestseller THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War. THE FAMILY (book & Netflix). THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS. Words+pics @VanityFair. Teach @Dartmouth.
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I-244, “Dispersal Loop,” slashing through and above, draining wealth into the suburbs. Bill McKibben, in SwitchyardTulsa: “A suburb is a device for hiding how things work.”
I read about the Beverly in Patton Oswalt's Silver Screen Fiend, & ever since I've been living an imaginary life on the side in which I live in an SRO in L.A. going nowhere but it's fine because I go to the Beverly several times a week. (I live in Vermont. I've never been.)
“Not just through, but over, above”—Natasha Tretheway, in SwitchyardTulsa, on the highway that slashed thru Tulsa’s rebuilt Black Wall St. “Hear the rumbling roar of engines”—and the house sparrows. Imagine the horn. switchyardmag.com/issue-1/ground…
Too on the nose. Walking beneath Tulsa’s “Dispersal Rd,” highway that sliced Black Greenwood—think massacre—i find broke-leg Uncle Sam. Up along highway I picture the window, boarded. Backyard I meet Ed. “Everybody want to buy it now. Buy-n-build.” SwitchyardTulsa