The Striver Class - by overlocked - The New Critic
“Just as I saw the social ladder as a kind of ethnography, my other classmates saw it as a winnable game. And it is winnable, that is the unspeakable thrill of it.”
THE NEW CRITIC Kit Knuppel Overlocked is the pseudonym of a 26-year-old lawyer from Auckland, New Zealand. New Critic paid subscribers get access to Postscript, our interview series, Contra, our criticism section, and exclusive New Critic parties for $30 a year. I’m worried nostalgia is a fascist emotion, I once announced to my law school housemate, a man who was forcefully subjected to my internal monologue for over two years. Gideon would consider my claim while reheating his leftovers. So is hunger, he’d rejoin, gesturing at the microwave. Then I would go upstairs and be nostalgic…
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