Book Launch: Author Event & Signing with Ed Simon for "American Elegy: Reflections on 250 Years of the Dis-United States"

"Compiling an assemblage that’s less a canon than a cultural mixtape, Simon presents fifty short chapters that are asynchronously organized works of flash criticism, meant to draw connections across time periods, which each celebrating an aspect of the “America” that’s larger, deeper, and broader than the mere United States. As cynical politicians deny the diversity, complexity, and actual beauty of American culture in favor of myths about the nation being made great again, Simon provides not just an elegy, but a challenge and celebration, as well as a repository, an archive, and a call to start over." - IG Publishing