grand hotel abyss

Wednesday, May 03, 2017

a poet’s economics

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John Crowe Ransom ’s long-lost book, Land! , was written in the early 1930s, when fifteen million people, almost a quarter of the nat...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

Rate Your Mother™

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transcript of a robocall I received yesterday shortly after speaking with my mother: Hello. This is a message from your mother. Your mo...
Thursday, February 02, 2017

Simone Weil replies to Donald Trump

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The list of obligations towards the human being should correspond to the list of such human needs as are vital, analogous to hunger. ...
Friday, January 20, 2017

inaugural doggerel

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Slumping bumpkin country plumped for something that went thump on the stump as American as pumpkin pie & dry-aged rump steak, g...
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--news from Robert Neuwirth-- I recently (January 2020) signed a contract with Beacon Press for a new book of reportage on the economics of community. I'm also working on a collection of short stories about economics called The Book of Derivatives. Backstory: I've written two previous books: Stealth of Nations (on the global growth of the informal economy) & Shadow Cities (on the global growth of squatter communities). I live in New York City and do most of my writing on manual typewriters.
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