Title: Money changes everything : twenty-two writers tackle the last taboo with tales of sudden windfalls, staggering debts, and other surprising turns of fortune /
Authors: Offill, Jenny, 1968-; Schappell, Elissa.
Publisher: Doubleday,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Money United States Fiction.; Money in literature.; Money Psychological aspects
Abstract: Various notable writers candidly assess the complex role of money in their lives and in their personal relationships, in a collection that features contributions by Daniel Handler, Susan Choi, and Jonathan Dee.
Contents: The guy next door / Henry Alford -- Noveau poor / Ruth Konigsberg -- My inheritance / Meera Nair -- Safe / Charles D'Ambrosio -- Desperate creatures / Felicia Sullivan -- A dollar a tear / Marian Fontana -- Porn bought my football / Chris Offut -- Treasure me / Walter Kirn -- The American dream / Isabel Rose -- For richer / Fred Leebron -- For poorer / Kathryn Rhett -- Wining / Daniel Handler -- Dirty work / Lydia Millet -- On selling drugs, badly / Brett Martin -- What this cost me / Susan Choi -- My vow of poverty / Tony Serra -- Notes on bling / Steve Rinehart -- Mad money / Andy Behrman -- This way out / Jill McCorkle -- Stash / Claire Dededer -- The perilous dune / Jeanne McCullough -- Pre-existing condition / Jonathan Dee.