The book itself is conversational. Reviewing most of the quotes I pulled was uneventful; they don’t have much oomph excised from their textual home. If you liked hearing me ramble on about how I restarted my love affair with reading The New Yorker, you might dig the format of Gentrification: its pages give the reader space to stretch out and really bask in their own personal thoughts about what housing is, and should be. It is anecdote and suggestion, a personal story over coffee.
Read MoreI hated being a lawyer, and I was never very skilled at it, but that thought of someone saying to me, “I thought you were supposed to be a lawyer” in response to legal questions I answered partially or not at all truly terrified me. It is why I always tried to position myself as an outsider: A person who wanted to be in graduate school for creative writing during law school; a person who was only running long distances to get better at rowing; someone writing book reviews just to help me remember what I’ve read. No, I was just too scared to admit that I was running to run, or writing to be read. That fear, knowing it exists in other people?
Read MoreIn fiction, authors need to be subtle. In reality, people aren’t. At all. So they do all sorts of mind-bendingly stupid things that no work of fiction would be able to pull off without being ridiculed
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