An Introduction to American Odd

A look at peculiar institutions, oddball literary experiments, and reckless rugged individualists. A celebration of American non-conformity.




America, by which I mean the United States, has been called a lot of things: a laboratory of democracy, a city upon a hill, and the land of opportunity. This nation has also produced a lot of odd stuff. Inspired in part by the literary blog ireadoddbooks.com and Michel Foucault, this essay series seeks to explore the stranger intellectual crevices of this...