If you seek to do this in your own writing, know who and what came before you. While I wasn’t sure what The Art of Work would become when I started writing it, I knew the work I wanted it to do in the world. The second two are crafted works based on the author’s experience while also creating a fictionalized geography that aligns closely with actual people and places of an era. The first two are staunch realism and journalistic rendering of lived conditions of urban and rural poor. Let us Now Praise Famous Men (James Agee & Walker Evans), How the Other Half Lives (Jacob Riis), The Jungle (Upton Sinclair), What Work Is (Philip Levine) Here are a few of the texts that influenced me as I conceptualized, wrote, and refined my first collection. The Art of Work represents years of creative work and collaborative labor. Which books influenced their writing, and how? Today's writer is Jen Fitzgerald, whose book The Art of Work is now available. Bookmarked is a column in which writers give us their "shadow bibliographies"- essentially, the books behind their books.
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