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Cover of Other People's Comfort Keeps Me up at Night by Morgan Parker

Other People's Comfort Keeps Me up at Night

2015·Nonfiction

Literary Fiction

essays short stories

Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night is a powerful debut collection from a promising new and necessary voice. Parker’s collection is hyper-contemporary, drawing on what it means to be alive today when our phones autocorrect our texts and we’ve given into a kind of living that prioritizes work, money, and power over justice, equality, and happiness.

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Other People's Comfort Keeps Me up at Night

Year

2015

Type

Nonfiction

Literary Fiction

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essays short stories

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Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night is a powerful debut collection from a promising new and necessary voice. Parker’s collection is hyper-contemporary, drawing on what it means to be alive today when our phones autocorrect our texts and we’ve given into a kind of living that prioritizes work, money, and power over justice, equality, and happiness.

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