bobchap / iStock On page and on screen, few settings carry the cultural weight of the humble American diner. Inviting us in ... It’s a dying art form,” she says, a hint of wistfulness in ...

The American diner is a home away from home for many ... some of the greatest novels of the 20th century and even paintings by Edward Hopper and Norman Rockwell. In the TV series Twin Peaks ...

Art historian Margaret Iversen noted of Hopper ... We can see this readily in Nighthawks, where a fondness for the classic American diner is degraded—formally, through thrusting diagonals ...