Alissa Quart

Thanks @nytimes and @FrankBruni for liking one of my sentences enough to put it on the Sentences of 2024 list. Writers really care about this category :) I think #barbaraehrenreich would approve as she liked to find satirical threads in misery

"Pearly everlasting waits to be dried, troubling the line between plant and bloom, vased, its blossoms splaying palely, metonyms for other loss." From "Pearly Everlasting" by Alissa Quart, TYR's Poem of the Week: yalereview.org/article/alissa…

I wrote for @economichardship and @lithub about the meaning of @ZohranKMamdani .bsky.social and Wilson elections. The precarious middle class: not mere neurotics on their daybeds @INETeconomics @maiasz @DavidKlion link in comments

Really excited to see this fantastic essay by Alissa Quart. I’m quoted in it, and so is my daughter’s insightful care provider, Julie Croghan. theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

"The Triple-Decker Sandwich #Caregiver": Excellent article in The Guardian about the many pressures on today's #caregivers by journalist Alissa Quart. Well worth reading for its integration of the personal and political theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

My latest on caregiving and the absence of compassion in the Trump 2.0 era theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

Nice personal news to share among all of this political misery. Just sold my new book Terra Infirma to @PantheonBooks & editor @DeniseOswald about our state of constant & toxic uncertainty. Thanks @JillGrinbergLit @econhardship Read about it in: @PublishersWkly I ❤️ nonfiction

1. Call me "Cassandra" but I repeat: it's the ADMINISTRATIVE CLASS that's handing society to fascists: University Administration, Corporate Executives, Politicians, Law Partners, Supreme Court Justices- people w/ their hands on the wheel, anyone who can fly flags at half-mast.

Alissa Quart has now found a new way for her 90-year-old mother's joy to bloom in other homes. @OvermyerTV reports. cbsloc.al/4g8Xrre

Alissa Quart writes about the relationship between Labor Day sales and economic opportunity in America. time.com/7313480/labor-…

My latest essay for @TimeMagazineRS on Labor Day, Labor Day Sales and the American Dream. Very personal finance! time.com/7313480/labor-… @OvermyerTV @econhardship @howserob @hamiltonnolan

it's nearly impossible for someone who makes six figures and up to understand how anyone gets by on half that or less. but that lower class includes most of the country! meanwhile virtually all journalism &culture comes from a sheltered pov that only sometimes gestures at empathy

@PhdMarilyn @ZohranKMamdani @andrewcuomo @RichAzzopardi @lisquart 1 PhD is simply an obstacle to understanding real world politics. 2 PhDs may be fatal.

"The economic and cultural shocks keep on coming. Yet amid these dismal shifts, there is a bright spot—a new interest in what I call precariat power." bit.ly/3V1vNT6 @lisquart

@WSJ Yes! The Democratic Party can be the vanguard of the precariat (as articluated by @lisquart) even if @WSJ thinks that a bad thing; it's time that the Party identified itself w those who find themselves worse off, rather than-Obama style-tech billionaires & media celebrities.

The Democratic Party is losing today because it didn't face the fallout from the 2008 Great Recession, which wiped out a lot of people's wealth. That was a big messaging mistake: not acknowledging the enduring pain and loss during that time and after economichardship.org/2025/07/rural-…

In @nytopinion Looking anew at her 90-year-old mother’s paintings, Alissa Quart writes, “I found out things about her that I had never bothered to think about — children, of course, don’t tend to dwell on their parents’ ambitions or reveries.” nyti.ms/3GY91YU

My new piece on what I call "citizen insecurity" in @guardian Read about why and how many of us don't feel identified with America anymore @econhardship @maiasz @Longreads @JillGrinbergLit

For any of you still on here, this is my piece about my mother, her art, affordability and mortality in @nytimes @nytopinion @hyperallergic (Thought of you too @MollyJongFast) @econhardship

My Mother, the Artist, Discovered at 90 nytimes.com/2025/07/22/opi… by @lisquart

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