This is a kind of essay collection, kind of an essay diary, and similar to autofiction (minus the fiction part) of other writers these days. The book is a response to capitalism, but more so, a trying to reckon with, understand, define, and then process the reality of capitalism in various forms. One of the things that keeps happening in the book is Biss asking someone who should know the answer, to define capitalism, often finding either an almost tautological response, one that has no […]