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Reverse-Gentrification of the Literary World

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Tag: Long Beach

“Class Warfare” by Donald McCarthy

I left Los Angeles and moved to Long Beach, California, because I thought it’d be less cold—I don’t mean the temperature, I mean the atmosphere, the lack of caring, the judgment, the sheer disdain for those who haven’t made it. I escaped LA, but not the hell that it is to be a homeless woman . . .