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Very Recent History by Choire Sicha is an idiosyncratic and elegant narrative that follows a handful of young men in New York City as they navigate the ruins of money and power - in search of love and connection.After the Wall Street crash of 2008, the richest man in town is the mayor. Billionaires shed apartments like last season's fashions, even as the country's economy turns inside out. The young and careless go on as they always have, getting laid and getting laid off, falling in and out of love, and trying to navigate the strange world they traffic in: the Internet, complex financial markets, credit cards, pop stars, micro-plane cheese graters, and sex apps.A true-life fable of money, sex, and politics, Choire Sicha's Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (c.
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I co-own a website called The Awl, which is for smart people who like fun things. Maybe you are one of those people: please join us! Before that, I did a lot of other things. I was a paralegal, I worked in homeless shelters, I ran an art gallery, and for a while I worked for universities interviewing teenage research subjects about their sex lives, which was really weird and more than a little awkward. Also I was the editor of Gawker (twice), and I wrote a bunch for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and also for a suspiciously large number of magazines exactly one time. Right now, I live in Brooklyn with two cats, which is the right number of cats. (With just one cat, the cat thinks it's a person; with three cats, they all start to plot against you. Two cats, however, is just right.)
