There's a leveling homogeneity in America today created by television. Each day it passes over the vast land mass, over the states nudging each other like the sovereignties of the Balkans, creating a unifying cloud of aesthetic properties and experience. East and West, North and South are wrapped in a sort of over-soul of images, facts, happenings, celebrities. This debris is as sacred to our current fiction as gossip about the new vicar was to Trollope. And there it is on the page, informing the domestically restless households, father off somewhere, mother chagrined. Sons and daughters writing the books.


"Locations: An Introduction" (pp. xix-xx) - American Fictions (1999)

Elizabeth Hardwick Quotes

There's a leveling homogeneity in America today created by television. Each day it passes over the vast land mass, over the states nudging each other ...

There's a leveling homogeneity in America today created by television. Each day it passes over the vast land mass, over the states nudging each other ...

There's a leveling homogeneity in America today created by television. Each day it passes over the vast land mass, over the states nudging each other ...

There's a leveling homogeneity in America today created by television. Each day it passes over the vast land mass, over the states nudging each other ...