Jordan’s Reviews > Banal Nightmare > Status Update

I find myself simultaneously drawn to and repulsed by the snarky artist slice of life type books. I do like snark and art, but it is so distracting the way the (predominantly white, upper middle class, academic) authors of this loose genre handle identity. “I’m liberal white but not in a cringe way where I care about all that woke culture stuff” seems to be the soup de jour. It’s hardly funny or interesting.