grand hotel abyss

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

in the city of perpetual arrival

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PUT IT THIS WAY : Komal Ramparsad is my grandfather. This would come as strange news to Komal, who’s more than ten years younger than I am, ...
Wednesday, August 09, 2017

I thee pay

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Here’s what everyday life has become in the Western world: economic speed-dating. You try on a shirt at a department store but...
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...
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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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