For PopMatters, David Pike writes about our anthology: “The strategy of Going for Broke is disarmingly simple, almost dishearteningly commonsensical, and increasingly present in contemporary engagements with economic hardship and inequity: create space for and amplify the stories of those who know firsthand how hardship works. Most of the contributors to Going for Broke are writing from the other side, as it were, from the direct experience of growing up in poverty; being evicted; working low-wage service jobs; struggling to survive in an economy in which they have no guaranteed place and no human identity. Many of the contributors are also creating their stories from additionally marginalized racial, ethnic, or gender identities. Along with striving to establish empathy across the poverty line, they also make it abundantly clear that there is no firm line dividing the haves and the have-nots, and no one is immune from economic and other catastrophes.”

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