Roaming the country, mostly by bus, on a shoestring budget, Linh Dinh set out to document, in words and pictures, what life is like for people. From Cheyenne, Wyoming; Salt Lake City, Utah; Reno, Nevada; from Los Angeles and San Jose and Oakland, California; to Camden and Trenton and Vineland, New Jersey; from Chester and Norristown and Levittown, Pennsylvania; from Chicago and Joliet, Illinois and Columbus, Ohio; to Portland, Oregon and Tri-Cities, Washington; from Upper Manhattan to New Orleans; from Jackson, Mississippi to Wolf Point, Montana and Williston, North Dakota and Osceola, Iowa—Dinh walked miles and miles through unfamiliar neighborhoods, talking to whoever would talk to him: the homeless living in tent cities, the peddlers, the protestors, the public preachers, the bartenders and the regulars. With the uncompromising eye of a Walker Evans or a Dorothea Lange, and the indomitable, forthright prose of a modern-day Nelson Algren or James Agee, Dinh documents the appalling and the absurd with warmth and honesty, giving voice to America's often forgotten citizens and championing the awesome strength it takes to survive for those on the bottom.
Growing out of a photo and political writing blog Linh Dinh has maintained since 2009, Postcards from the End of America is an unflinching diary of what Dinh sees as the accelerating collapse of America. Tracking the economic, political, and social unraveling—from the casinos to the abandoned factories and across all the sidewalks in between—with a poet's incisive tongue and a blogger’s sense of outrage, and a journalist’s eye, Dinh shows us the uncanny power of the people facing societal devastation.
