![]() Biss’ sentences have retained a poet’s precision.’ ‘Calls on the controlled rush of poetry and turns experience into art.’ ![]() if you are not deeply discomfited by the time you finish reading On Having and Being Had, you have no conscience.’ In Having and Being Had, both gifts are on display. Her other talent is for laying bare our submerged fears. ![]() The first is her ability to reveal to the reader what has, all along, been hidden in plain sight. ‘As a writer Eula Biss has two great gifts. Playfully ranging from IKEA to Beyoncé to Pokémon, across bars and laundromats and universities, she asks, of both herself and her class, ‘In what have we invested? The result is Having and Being Had: a radical interrogation of work, leisure and capitalism. ![]() Having just purchased her first home, Eula Biss embarks on a roguish and risky self-audit of the value system she has bought into. ‘A probing tour of capitalism and class.’ MAGGIE NELSONĪ personal reckoning with the intricacies of money, class and capitalism from the N ew York Times bestselling author. ![]()
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