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Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay
By Ben Katchor
Hardcover
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By Ben Katchor
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"Twenty-five years on, [Cheap Novelties'] observations of what is lost as cityscapes evolve and shift due to gentrification and changing demographics are still fresh and relevant."—The Guardian
Cheap Novelties is an early testament to Ben Katchor's extraordinary prescience as both a gifted cartoonist and an astute urban chronicler. Rumpled, middle-aged Julius Knipl photographs a vanishing cityan urban landscape of low-rent apartment buildings, obsolete industries, monuments to forgotten peo...