She describes the lure of becoming a landowner near the start of her searching, occasionally frustrating collection of short essays on how money shapes and winnows our trajectories. It pushed Biss and her husband, John, also an artist, into a new pay bracket – one that could accommodate a mortgage on a brick bungalow with a view of the lake in Evanston, Chicago, a historically African- American neighbourhood. That is, until she secured a university job, along with a raise that brought her salary to $73,000. The American essayist, lauded for her genre-crossing nonfiction books Notes from No Man’s Land (2009) and On Immunity (2014), has long valued money in terms of the time it afforded her to write, she writes here. The American writer’s collection of essays Having and Being Had explores how money shapes and winnows our trajectoriesĮula Biss didn’t see the point of owning property until she bought a house herself.
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