Adelaide Writers’ Week: The Supremacy of Class

In an era with an increasing focus on identity-based politics, the impact of class can be overlooked or downplayed. What are the lasting effects of growing up poor, and the stress and trauma poverty can engender? Rick Morton (One Hundred Years of Dirt) and Sarah Smarsh (Heartland) offer analysis and their own personal experiences to consider the mobility and rigidity of class. Chair: Jeff Sparrow

Read an extract from Heatland here.

Sarah Smarsh
Sarah Smarsh has covered socioeconomic class, politics, and public policy for The Guardian, The New York Times, NewYorker.com, Harpers.org, The Texas Observer, and many others. She recently was a Joan Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. A former professor of nonfiction writing, Smarsh is a frequent speaker on economic inequality and related media narratives. She lives in Kansas. Heartland is her first book.

Jeff Sparrow
Jeff Sparrow is a writer, editor, and broadcaster. He writes a fortnightly column for The Guardian and contributes regularly to many other Australian and international publications. Jeff is a member of the 3RRR Breakfasters team and the immediate past editor of literary journal Overland. He is the author of a number of award-nominated books, including Money Shot and Communism: a love story. His most recent book is Trigger Warnings.

Heartland

Sarah Smarsh

RRP: $32.99 Pub date: 15 Oct 2018 Category: Memoirs Cover view

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Trigger Warnings

Jeff Sparrow

RRP: $29.99 Pub date: 1 Oct 2018 Category: Political correctness Cover view

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