This brief memoir chronicles the author’s decade as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Bringley took a curious route to his position at The Met. He was in his early 20s and working at the New Yorker magazine when his beloved older brother was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer that would kill him a few years later. Distraught, Bringley sought refuge at The Met, quitting his supposed dream job to spend his days standing on marble floors, shuffling from […]