Benjamin Kessler is the author of the story collection Of This World (Game Over Books). He is a Goldenberg Prize for Fiction recipient and former Editor-in-Chief of Portland Review. He teaches fiction at Portland State University.
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In his 1974 book, Working, Studs Terkel begins by saying, “This book, being about work, is, by its very nature, about violence—to the spirit as well as to the body.” That “violence” is, to some, an idea intrinsically tied to the idea of American exceptionalism. For others, however, it represents nothing less than profound and
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