Sam Pink’s latest book comprises 13 grisly, spare, and poetic stories that delve into the darkest corners of modern society — or, as Pink described in a 2018 Electric Literature interview, “the garbage times” — and the wageworkers that inhabit it. Divided into sections on Chicago, Florida, and Michigan, Pink zooms in on the mundanities and dirty realities of labor — and the rare moments of humanity that manage to break through it.
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