![]() A lot of my friends were involved in the Obama campaign. After September 11, it became even less cute.įast-forward to 2008. Yet suddenly, the title of my book wasn’t so cute anymore. It was 180 degrees opposite of my values and worldview. I had nothing to do with the Oklahoma City bombing. The author’s introduction explains the conundrums he’s faced: The title was an attention grabber, though of course to “bomb” a place is to spray-paint your tag on a wall, and no call to violence was ever intended.īut a few more crazy years have passed since the mid-90s, and some places around the world really have gotten bombed - Oklahoma City, New York City and the Pentagon, Iraq and Afghanistan - and the title of Wimsatt’s new book Please Don’t Bomb The Suburbs (published, this time around, by Akashic) deals with these changes head-on. Sometime during the crazy mid-1990s, young graffiti artist and Chicago activist William “Upski” Wimsatt wrote Bomb the Suburbs, one of the quintessential early Soft Skull books. ![]()
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