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For far too many, "a good story has become a substitute for truth," says @ayadakhtar.
I interviewed this brilliant novelist and dramatist about the deeper underpinnings of this moment. https://the.ink/p/ayadakhtar
I interviewed this brilliant novelist and dramatist about the deeper underpinnings of this moment. https://the.ink/p/ayadakhtar
. @ayadakhtar's wonderful new novel, "Homeland Elegies," is a fictional work based on the truth.
So I asked how he sees the blurring of truth and fiction in American public life.
https://the.ink/p/ayadakhtar
So I asked how he sees the blurring of truth and fiction in American public life.
https://the.ink/p/ayadakhtar
I asked @ayadakhtar how he conceives of the problem of weaning tens of millions of Americans off of a diet of falsehoods in coming years.
https://the.ink/p/ayadakhtar
https://the.ink/p/ayadakhtar
The people who choose to become artists and the people who profoundly grasp the financial and technological infrastructure that runs our world are often different people.
@ayadakhtar is rare on that score. He makes art about our deep systems... https://the.ink/p/ayadakhtar
@ayadakhtar is rare on that score. He makes art about our deep systems... https://the.ink/p/ayadakhtar
The financialization of attention is "fundamentally the most important issue facing our societies," @ayadakhtar argues.
Through social media, "we are being shepherded into the system of really having our behavior predicted and our actions monetized."
https://the.ink/p/ayadakhtar
Through social media, "we are being shepherded into the system of really having our behavior predicted and our actions monetized."
https://the.ink/p/ayadakhtar
"In this country, the white majority is basically blind to the worst in themselves. They see themselves in the image of their best, and they see us in the image of our worst" -- @ayadakhtar https://the.ink/p/ayadakhtar
I asked @ayadakhtar about the debate he airs in the novel about whether America is fundamentally corrupted at the root by racism and greed, or whether there is some noble striving that is real and can be salvaged from the ruins of the way we’ve lived.
https://the.ink/p/ayadakhtar
https://the.ink/p/ayadakhtar
As part of his project of making literature out of arcane but important areas of public life, @ayadakhtar investigates debt in his new novel. Debt, he says, is a prism for understanding our upstairs-downstairs economy.
https://the.ink/p/ayadakhtar
https://the.ink/p/ayadakhtar
I asked @ayadakhtar about the cultural significance of medical GoFundMes.
"The system," he said, "has convinced us that we have to take care of each other because the system's not going to take care of us."
Then you must personally brand your hardship.
https://the.ink/p/ayadakhtar
"The system," he said, "has convinced us that we have to take care of each other because the system's not going to take care of us."
Then you must personally brand your hardship.
https://the.ink/p/ayadakhtar
. @ayadakhtar believes the Fed is quietly fueling a "permanent upward redistribution of wealth."
"We're baking in a dispossession of the folks who don't own assets. We're baking in a redistribution of their wealth in the opposite direction."
https://the.ink/p/ayadakhtar
"We're baking in a dispossession of the folks who don't own assets. We're baking in a redistribution of their wealth in the opposite direction."
https://the.ink/p/ayadakhtar
(The above tweet is for all the Fed guys who have told me that I'm wasting my career writing about anything other than what the Fed is doing. You're welcome, Fed guys.)
"There's something intoxicating to all involved, myself included, to be hobnobbing with those who pull the levers. Until you realize that those who pull the levers don't know anything" -- @ayadakhtar on mingling with the plutes after making it big.
https://the.ink/p/ayadakhtar
https://the.ink/p/ayadakhtar
Read my full conversation with @ayadakhtar here: https://the.ink/p/ayadakhtar
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