I really like stories set small town of America. The ones that I know are the Green Town trilogy of Ray Bradbury (Something Wicked This Way Comes, Dandelion Wine, and Farewell Summer). There is also Riverdale from the Archie comics. Gravity Falls, Oregon from the cartoon Gravity Falls. It seems small town settings are quite good for all kind of genres from comedies, adventures, mystery, thriller, romance, etc. Themes of unchangingness versus change, innocence versus growing up, home vs the world, all seem to prop up in these kind of stories which I really enjoy.And I want to read more books that utilize this setting. So any recommendations, /lit/?
>>24685081That looks like where my grandparents used to live
>>24685138The place is called Rivertown.
>>24685081Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson should be exactly what your looking for. See also In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William Gass. If you're into graphic novels I recommend Ice Haven by Daniel Clowes.
Our Town (stage play)The Winter of Our DiscontentThe Hamlet
Salem’s LotHarvest HomeThose Across the River
>>24685193>Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Andersoni strongly endorse this messageit was an influence on every writer who came after him
Most of the fiction of John Updike. The Centaur is great if a little heartbreaking.
>>24685193>>24685218>>24685221>>24685274Thanks for the recs, guys
There's another one you guys are forgetting but I can't rememer what it's called.
>>24685081Alice Munro (Canada, rather than USA, but definitely small-town vibe) — short stories, usually small-scale domestic dramas, coming-of-age, infidelity, etcCarson McCullers — try e.g. Ballad of Sad Café. Like most of her stuff it's really about being a sexual outsider, but the claustrophobic small-town atmosphere is strong tooRichard Brautigan — small-town America with a surreal gloss. Try Revenge of the Lawn (short stories) or So The Wind Won't Blow It Away (childhood / coming-of-age)To Kill A Mockingbird is quite small-towny
>>24685081>>24685896 And of course I forgot, a quintessential small-town comic author is Garrison Keillor (Lake Woebegon). Understated Lutheran Minnesota slice-of-life. If you like him, there's lots of them; if you don't, you'll find out pretty fast.
>>24685141Well that's not where she lived but okay
>>24685896no, that's not what i was thinking of
>>24685081sinclair lewis - main street
>>24685274Yeah, Updike is the undisputed kang of small town America.
>>24685081Faulkner is required for the Yoknapatawpha County literary universe, but it is also distinctly southern, not generic american small town.
>>24686975no, that's not it either
>>24685274>>24687535What's Updike?
>>24687605Faulkner's short stories also have a lot of that small town southern vibe
