Word: suburbanitis
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...neither amusing nor artsy. This box contains the ashes of Eggers' mother, who died of stomach cancer when he was 21--five weeks after his father died of lung cancer. Eggers thus became the guardian of his eight-year-old brother Toph (short for Christopher) and moved from suburban Chicago to California. It's a hilarious book, despite the subject, that applies McSweeney's textual slyness full-force. The acknowledgments contain a guide to themes and symbols (and a chart of his advance and expenses), and his subjects frequently break out of character to note how Eggers has altered events...
...rumpled skirt, your spotted sweater and your hair in a tizzy"). John, in Narcotics: Pit of Despair, takes that first fatal drag on a joint and instantly becomes a heroin addict. What could be spookier? A Date with Your Family, in which five pod people purporting to be a suburban family sit down to dinner. "Pleasant, unemotional conversation," we are told, "helps digestion." Hey, what is this? Stalin's Russia...
...Wizards leaped from that pack. Last fall at Jordan's suburban-Chicago restaurant, five men broke bread and talked turkey for four hours. At one point Ledecky got in Jordan's face: "Michael, I want to know--can you focus on the Wizards, or are we going to be another entry on your long list of corporate deals?" Jordan's eyes narrowed the way they would when Toni Kukoc didn't dish off. "Jon," said Jordan, "when I decide to compete, there is only one way I do it. To win." After a few cigars and a $40 million payment...
...students drive up rents, they also drive out working families--and can make the neighborhoods more like college campuses than suburban streets...
...long as Boston continues to attract recent-graduates, professionals and suburban families, demand will remain high for housing in and around the city...