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A chronicle of wealth and class in the literary world – Emily Cooke

Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living BY Manjula Martin. Simon & Schuster. 304 pages. $16. Purchase this book: Bookshop • Amazon There was a moment soon after I moved to New York City from Oregon—though not that soon, maybe two years in, the point being how long my pristine naïveté resisted corruption—when I realized that every new literary person I met had gone to Harvard or Brown. I didn’t know why more of them hadn’t gone to Yale, Princeton, or Cornell (my new friends, with their firsthand understanding of the relative strengths of the Ivies, likely could have

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