The Trouble Is the Banks Letters to Wall Street

by Greif, Mark; Tortorici, Dayna; French, Kathleen; Janaskie, Emma; Werle, Nick

• ISBN13: 9780982597774
• ISBN10: 0982597770
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-11-13
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Summary

The Trouble is the Banks collects 150 letters that Americans (and one Canadian) wrote directly to executives and directors of five big, banks in fall 2011, at a time when protests were emerging in Occupy Wall Street camps across the United States. These writers speak as citizens to citizens, making an unprecendented portrait of ordinary Americans' experiences of the financial crisis since 2007. Here is the speech of the People, not any authority above them.

Author Biography

Mark Greif is a cofounder and coeditor of n+1 and teaches at the New School. Dayna Tortorici is an associate editor of n+1. Kathleen French is a fiction writer who studied English at Harvard. She is originally from Dallas, Texas. Emma Janaskie is a writer living in Providence. Nick Werle studies financial economics and white-collar crime in Brooklyn. Occupy the Boardroom is a website created by volunteers from community and labor organizations as well as the Occupy movement that allows everyday Americans to send personal e-mails to the nation’s top bank and corporate executives. n+1 is a magazine of literature, culture, and politics that is published three times per year.

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