Shopping Mall
Object Lessons
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Shopping Mall
Narrated by:
Mack Gordon
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Narrated by:
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Mack Gordon
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Written by:
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Matthew Newton
About this listen
Object Lessons is a series of short books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
The mall near Mat thew Newton’s childhood home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was one of the state’s first enclosed shopping malls. Like all malls in their heyday, this one was a climate-controlled pleasuredome where strangers converged. It boasted waterfalls, fish ponds, an indoor ice skating rink larger than Rockefeller Center’s, and a monolithic clock tower illuminated year-round beneath a canopy of interconnected skylights. It also became the backdrop for filmmaker George A. Romero’s zombie opus Dawn of the Dead.
Part memoir and part case study, Shopping Mall examines the modern mythology of the mall and shows that, more than a collection of stores, it is a place of curiosity, ritual, and fantasy.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.©2017 Matthew Newton (P)2025 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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