"An Assemblage of Habits": D. J. Waldie and Neil Campbell—A Suburban Conversation

This is a conversation between Californian writer D.J. Waldie and British academic Neil Campbell that took place in Los Angeles in January 2011. The discussion is mainly focused on the memoir Holy Land written by Waldie and published in 1996 but ranges across a number of associated and related issues to do with perceptions and revisions of the idea of suburbia. Waldie is explicit about the origins of the memoir and his reasons for wanting to write a book for his "neighbors" that would present a world that was truthful to the multiplicitous and complexly negotiated experiences of contemporary American suburban life.