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fromThe Nation
19 hours ago

Has Contemporary Fiction Ignored the Working Class?

Work's grip on life demands vigilance; allowing career to consume identity risks losing oneself entirely to labor's demands.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

Studio bosses were like: it sounds lovely. We'll pass!': Joel Edgerton and Clint Bentley on their Oscar-tipped lumberjack tragedy

Train Dreams portrays an unheroic, stoical lumberjack's rugged, spiritual life in early 1900s Pacific Northwest, shaped by labor, loss, and subtle supernatural elements.
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 months ago

Seascraper by Benjamin Wood review a story that sings on the page

Tom is clearly in the Hardyesque tradition of unworldly young men who tend the land or work with their hands (Gabriel Oak, Jude Fawley), and it's this that alerts us to his vulnerability to charmers and chancers. Apprenticed by his pop at 14 (every other Flett had been a shrimper, going back to his great-grandpa), Tom nevertheless longs for a life less circumscribed.
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