Love seeing a labor organizer in Dirt + Literary Hub's series on writing and money: 'The freelance writer is no different than any other gig worker in our fractured, dystopian modern economy. We only eat what we kill.'
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Up next in The Middle Class Writer series with Literary Hub, Rick Paulas, Laurie Stone, becca, Ash Croce, Danny Lorberbaum, and August Croft reflect on working in the food service industry.

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i dream of being a bartender... just saying

Last year, becca’s essay “Bad waitress” was our most popular article.

We reached out to Becca again and five other writers to talk about their relationship to the service industry. dirt.fyi/article/2024/0…

'Ralph Lauren got the club chair right the first time, back in the 1990s. It differed from the usual fantasy the brand sold, more Donald Judd and less English Countryside.' dirt.fyi/article/2024/0…

This week's Prune is on Ralph Lauren's very modern and slightly out-of-character riff on the club chair, the RL 2000.

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I wrote a short piece about learning how to bartend at the age of 42 and how it is maybe a much more dignified profession than “freelance writer”???

'It’s easy to remain clueless about how the world works for most people.'

Writers on working in the service industry.

Thank you Rick Paulas, Laurie Stone, becca, Ash Croce, Danny Lorberbaum, August Croft. 🤎 dirt.fyi/article/2024/0…

This essay from Dirt is all the feels. dirt.fyi/article/2024/0…

The Money Diaries: Real Writers, Real Budgets | Literary Hub pwne.ws/4aCJPAW

#Writing As Labor: Doing More With Less, Together lithub.com/writing-as-lab… via Literary Hub

'The concept of a writer that I and most non-writers held in our collective consciousness was a myth, a cultural construction informed by a small number of relatively famous writers...'

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LitHub is featuring a week of essays about social class & lit. I kicked it off with an essay I called 'Cutting Class.' You can read it below.... Literary Hub Economic Hardship Reporting Project Ecco Poetry Society Mary O'Hara Working Class Literature Maximillian Alvarez
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I wrote a thing for Dirt about my secret past as a union organizer, why I turned to writing to escape that life, and the doubts and misgivings that plague me in my lowest moments dirt.fyi/article/2024/0…

Don't miss this Dave Hill morsel which perfectly delivers the universal appeal and messaging that defines his toil..

ok I'm making the case that John Prine belongs on this list

We also have a wonderful piece by David Hill on the reality of writing as labor and past efforts to organize authors for better wages: “Writing is work, like anything else, and as such it can provide riches for some, and peanuts for most.” dirt.fyi/article/2024/0…

“Writing is work, like anything else, and as such it can provide riches for some, and peanuts for most.” dirt.fyi/article/2024/0…

Good god this essay is incredible.

'The freelance writer is no different than any other gig worker in our fractured, dystopian modern economy. We only eat what we kill.'

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