Ben Tarnoff > Quotes

“In the West, America could cast off the lingering influence of the Old World and blossom into a truly original civilization.”
― Ben Tarnoff, The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature

“It’s hard to imagine a profession less suited to Twain’s personality than daily journalism. Four decades later he still shuddered at the memory of its “soulless drudgery.”
― Ben Tarnoff, The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature

“To borrow a formulation from Stuart Hall, race and gender are modalities through which class is lived. In the case of the tech worker movement, they are modalities through which tech workers of the middle layers live the proletarian elements of their contradictory class location.”
― Ben Tarnoff, The Making of the Tech Worker Movement