The Spoon River Anthology sounds like a fascinating read. It's definitely apparent that Hollander has a great deal of enthusiasm for the now nearly 100 year old collection of epitaphs, but that enthusiasm proves infectious.
Plus, as a sketch of a small town drawn in lines of character interaction definitely does seem quintessentially American. A group of people working together for some common purpose. Perhaps that purpose is a story, since all of the collection's characters are dead and so they can't exactly march in any activist cause.
More so, it's things like the Spoon River Anthology (based on Hollander's description of it as a collection of overlapping and interlocking stories) that laid the ground work for TV shows like Twin Peaks. After all, what is the oddity at the center of Twin Peaks if not the co-existence of so many varied and unique individuals that nonetheless form together into a mysterious town full of secrets?
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