Ariel Courage is a graduate of the Brooklyn College MFA program, where she was editor-in-chief of the Brooklyn Review.
She’s currently an assistant fiction editor at Agni. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Joyland, and elsewhere.
Courage's new novel is Bad Nature.
At Electric Lit she tagged eleven books that "reach beyond Gatsby and Chuzzlewit to illustrate the damage money can do to those who have it." One title on the list:
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-AknerRead about the other entries on the list.
The Fletchers live large in Long Island off the polystyrene fortune amassed by their Holocaust-survivor grandfather. Generational wealth in no way empowers them to cope with their generational trauma, and their “kidnappable” richness also makes them a target for crime, leaving them all crippled to varying degrees by neuroses. This novel’s narrator claims to be agnostic on the question of whether it’s better to “rise to success on [your] own but never stop feeling the fear at the door” or to “be born into comfort and safety” but “never become fully realized people.” Still, this book’s scathing depiction of the rich seems to suggest an answer.
--Marshal Zeringue
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