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Will Meyer

About Will Meyer

Will Meyer (“Ace”) is a writer and musician. He is editor of The Shoestring, a local online publication in Western Massachusetts.

Thoughts on Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Kristoff and WuDunn

February 7, 2020 by Will Meyer Leave a Comment

An essay adapted from Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, the new book by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, appeared in the paper’s Sunday Review section on January 9th. Focusing on “deaths of despair” occurring in the Oregon county where Kristof has roots, the piece tries to square common tropes about how […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Class in Literature, Class in the Media, Classism, Cultural capital, Dismantlng Classism

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