Bomb The Suburbs, by William Upski Wimsatt

William Upski Wimsatt

William Wimsatt, also known as Billy or Upski is a social entrepreneur, author, political organizer, and former graffiti artist...

 is a mix of storytelling

Storytelling

Storytelling is the conveying of events in words, images and sounds, often by improvisation or embellishment. Stories or narratives have been shared in every culture as a means of entertainment, education, cultural preservation and in order to instill moral values...

, journalism

Journalism

Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...

 photojournalism and original research on a broad range of topics like suburban sprawl

Urban sprawl

Urban sprawl, also known as suburban sprawl, is a multifaceted concept, which includes the spreading outwards of a city and its suburbs to its outskirts to low-density and auto-dependent development on rural land, high segregation of uses Urban sprawl, also known as suburban sprawl, is a...

, hip hop culture, wiggers, youth activism

Youth activism

Youth activism is when the youth voice is engaged in community organizing for social change. Around the world, young people are engaged in activism as planners, researchers, teachers, evaluators, social workers, decision-makers, advocates and leading actors in the environmental movement, social...

, graffiti

Graffiti

Graffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property....

, and Chicago. It was photoedited by artist Margarita Certeza Garcia and published in 1994 by Subway & Elevated Press, a division of Soft Skull Press

Soft Skull Press

Soft Skull Press is an independent publisher founded by Sander Hicks in 1992, and run by Richard Eoin Nash from 2001 to 2009. In 2007, Nash sold Soft Skull to Counterpoint LLC, where it continues to function as a division of the press...

, with ISBN 0-9643855-0-3, and republished in 2000, in New York and London. The first edition had only 3,000 copies.

Bomb The Suburbs started somewhat of a Wimsatt cult following

Cult following

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, leading to subsequent books and political activism.

External links

• Bomb The Suburbs at Soft Skull Press