![]() ![]() ![]() Why is being an artist so at odds with the kind of mentality needed to find stability in our modern world? What do we give up as we pursue economic gain? How can we find agency-write our own rules for living-while also making our way within enormous capitalist systems that are entrenched and seemingly immovable? These are the big questions Biss approaches in her compulsively readable memoir, Having and Being Had, which blends research (the notes section is nearly 50 pages long), reflection and richly rendered personal experience. As she came to terms with her new success, she also found herself reflecting on precarity-as well as money, art and capitalism. The moment her contract shifted from visiting artist to a more permanent title, Biss and her family bought a house. ![]() Writer Eula Biss worked a variety of temporary jobs before achieving economic security as an English professor at Northwestern University. ![]()
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