
Last summer I left a small, research-intensive university in the British Midlands and arrived in the United States to take a job at Rutgers University. My preparation for New Jersey culture was, obviously, the television series The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire, along with Jersey Shore, which my son encouraged me to savor as a postmodern pleasure.
In literature, Richard Ford’s Independence Day offered what seemed to be a pathway into the New Jersey soul coupled with an elaborate tour of its freeways, while Philip Roth’s American Pastoral provided a rich cultural and ethnic history of the state.
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