White Voice

I wrote about my life as a teenage telemarketing prodigy. It's also a cultural history of 90s white masculinity, life at the origin of the 2008 financial crisis, & notes on Sorry to Bother You.

"For my cohort—white, middle class, liminal, too young to be Gen X, too old to feel millennial, post–cold war but pre-Google—it’s difficult to believe that for most, the ’90s were a time of quiet desperation and slow violence. We came of age during the glancingly brief end of history, raised to believe that our futures were limitless and that our nation’s narrative—at least the one it told its kids—was trending forever up. The reality is difficult to believe even for me, who as a kid spent my weeknights tallying the nation’s debt, on the phone with its debtors."


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