Are You Writing About the American Maul?

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A lot of the book is about the competing feelings of like, nestalgia and destruction. Each country or region has a really different trajectory in terms of how the mals developed. i just feel like you really have to understand the larger, li cultural constract of them all in the individual country. I quote a lot ofy people, critics and historians from other countries,. ecause i'm just like, yet they get it in a way that i would never get it.

Alexandra Lange is a design critic whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and many other publications. Her new book is Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall.

“I really like to write about things that I can hold and experience. I'm not that interested in biography, but I am very interested in the biography of an object. ... Like I feel about the objects, I think, how most people feel about people. So what I'm always trying to do is communicate that enthusiasm and that understanding to my reader, because these objects really have a lot of speaking to do.”

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