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It Doesn’t Always Get Better: Patrick Nathan’s ‘Some Hell’
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It Doesn’t Always Get Better: Patrick Nathan’s ‘Some Hell’

By
Mike Schiller
/ 22 May 2018

Nathan explores the hyperbolic mind of the teenager, a time bomb of unresolved emotion that can be unleashed at any perceived slight, no matter how minor.

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Backyard Fiction, a.k.a. the Great American Myth of Suburbia

By
Dean Blumberg
/ 15 April 2010
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Rush: Rock Music and the Middle Class — Dreaming in Middletown by Chris McDonald

By
Diane Leach
/ 30 March 2010
Culture/Featured: Top of Home Page/Features

The Last Housing Edition on the Left: Suburbia Is What You Make of It

By
PopMatters Staff
/ 18 October 2004

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