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The Season of the Brich

Season of the Brich

They may flaunt their designer bags or Château Haut-Brion, but in reality the brich—the broke and rich—stay afloat on borrowed fumes…multiple credit card advances, the kindness of friends, and the like...until the day, they fear, that it is all pulled out from under them.
By Richard Kirshenbaum
The author with his stuff (via Flickr's FakeSalt)

Tao Lin Gets Free Money, But Not Enough

After yesterday’s breaking story about Shoplifting From American Apparel‘s Tao Lin being so broke that he was selling everything he
By Drew Grant
Tao Lin, selling his shit (Megan Boyle)

Buy Tao Lin’s Juicer: Cash-Strapped Author Sells All His Stuff on Twitter

The life of a successful writer isn’t as lucrative as Franco or Franzen would have you believe. Just ask Tao
By Drew Grant

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