From “Happy Days” to “Mad Men”
(Crossposted at Arcade.) Some recent conversations on Arcade have gotten me thinking about midcentury America, or rather our idea of the midcentury as a privileged moment of literary production, consumption, and promise. In particular, I’ve been turning over Natalia Cecire’s query, “[W]hat is to be gained in mourning the passing of a genre or a … Continue reading From “Happy Days” to “Mad Men”