One Picture Book: Supermarket Cover
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One Picture Book Supermarket

John Divola

“Supermarket” by artist John Divola comprises a group of photographs of middle-aged women shopping for groceries in the early 1970s. The black-and-white photographs were made in the San Fernando Valley where Divola grew up. Made at the outset of Divola’s career, these images are at once melancholy -...

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The Jordan Harbinger Show

Bobby Hall discussed his first book "Supermarket", which was a New York Times best-seller, and his thoughts on his childhood and his difficult family life.

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I always feel like I'm lying like there's a part of me that's embellishing or this or that or whatever the case maybe

— Episode: 563: Bobby Hall (aka Logic) | This Brigh...

Episode: 563: Bobby Hall (aka Logic) | This Bright Future

Bobby Hall discussed his first book "Supermarket", which was a New York Times best-seller, and his thoughts on his childhood and his difficult family life.

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I always feel like I'm lying like there's a part of me that's embellishing or this or that or whatever the case maybe

And then you know the book opens up with my mother's screaming on the phone and going crazy.

It's because I'm listening back to a 16 year old recording while I was recording music, I stopped it you can hear my mom record like going crazy in the background and the funniest part is like, it's in the audiobook and it's gnarly.

That just gives me that feeling of like, oh right, it's worse than I thought it was, you know what I mean?

My dad smoked crack, my brother sold my dad crack, they were gangsters, ran around taught me to cook crack, you know what I mean brothers on drugs, mom was a prostitute, she was raped had miscarriages, beat me for no reason, almost choke me to death one time.

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