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Podcast: New Books in Popular Culture
Episode: The Garage: A History
Description: On this episode of the MIT Press podcast, Olivia Erlanger and Luis Ortega Govela discuss their book, Garage.Frank Lloyd Wright invented the garage when he moved the automobile out of the stable into a room of its own. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (allegedly) started Apple Computer in a garage. Suburban men turned garages into man caves to escape from family life. Nirvana and No Doubt played their first chords as garage bands. What began as an architectural construct became a cultural construct. In this provocative history and deconstruction of an American icon, Olivia Erlanger and L...