Ann Larson

Jan 24, 2025 | economichardship.org | Ann Larson

Automation in Retail Is Even Worse Than You Thought Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Nation. Brianna Bagley’s favorite hobby is playing Horizon Zero Dawn, a role-playing game featuring a young hunter who battles murderous robotic organisms on a postapocalyptic planet overrun by machines. When she isn’t leveling up in the game, Bagley is hard at work in the produce department of a chain supermarket in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Sep 19, 2024 | economichardship.org | Ann Larson |Alissa Quart

Class Defectors vs. Working Class Traitors: What JD Vance Could Learn From Édouard Louis and Annie Ernaux Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Literary Hub. “Poor people” are “my people” Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance has said. In his best-selling 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy, he claimed a similar possessiveness, while at the same time viewing this “cultural inheritance” with contempt.

Sep 18, 2024 | lithub.com | Ann Larson |Alissa Quart

Ann Larson and Alissa Quart on the Power of the French Sociological Memoir This story was co-published by the journalism non-profit the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

Sep 5, 2024 | lithub.com | Alex Miller |Bobbi Dempsey |Ann Larson

Nonfiction writer Alissa Quart joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss how the American obsession with “bootstrap narratives” led to the publishing industry championing Hillbilly Elegy, the bestselling and problematic memoir by J.D. Vance, who was subsequently elected to the Senate and is now the Republican vice presidential nominee.