Hari Kunzru’s Blue Ruin, Adelle Waldman’s Help Wanted, and Ryan Chapman’s The Audacity probe the dynamics of class in our ever-modernizing world. Blue Ruin follows an art school graduate whose promising future comes crashing down during the pandemic. Help Wanted follows the low-wage employees of Team Movement, whose lives cycle through grueling days of few hours, multiple jobs, and early shifts—until the store manager announces he’s leaving. In The Audacity, the implosion of a multibillion-dollar health startup provides insight into life for the .0001% under late-stage capitalism. Join these three authors for a conversation on class, race, the modern American workplace, and the trials and tribulations of trying to make a living. Moderated by Kate Tuttle, past president of the National Book Critics Circle and an editor at the Boston Globe.
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