This is great! Oedipus Abridged, in 60 seconds or less!

Such a fantastic piece, Anna! Congrats! I'll look forward to teaching this, and to snagging the "Be collective, do heists" merch when it drops...

Dying to know the title of this?! "Semi-Charmed: Now on Broadway."

Yes! Great conversations about service work, sex work, aspiration, and precarity. We also read it as a retelling of Gatsby, one of the few texts they had in common. How come these critiques of the ultra rich take so much pleasure in cataloguing their stuff? (see also: White Lotus, Succession, etc.)

It's a co-taught class on the fiction and sociology of work. So we do Waldman with Braverman, Emma Cline's The Guest alongside The Managed Heart, Lightning Rods with Theory of the Gimmick + The Last Human Job, plus Severance (Ma) / Severance (Stiller)... It's such a fun class!

So excited to read this, because (a) SNEAKERS, and (b) I have a lecture on the heist-as-collective-action in Adelle Waldman's HELP WANTED, and I can't wait to work this in!

It gets worse! I was working with a student RA who first suggested the change! 💀

How fabulous! I’m eager to hear what they think!

Very cool! Thanks for telling me, Jaclyn!

Thank you! I’m over the moon!

Thanks, Eloise!

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Thanks, Matt! I'm thrilled. Now I can probably stop shouting "I'm actually a FORMALIST!" in various situations...