The Status Seekers

Many people are badly distressed, and scared, by the anxieties, inferiority feelings, and straining generated by this unending process of rating and status striving. The status seekers, as I use the term, are people who are continually straining to surround themselves with visible evidence of the superior rank they are claiming.

—Vance Packard,The Status Seekers (1959)


In those days, we studied the difference between antenna

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—Kathleen Ossip, from The Cold War

Ryan Van Meter's If You Knew Then What I Know Now is a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award.

Caitlin Horrocks' This Is Not Your City is shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.

Lia Purpura is interviewed in Orion.

05-28-2012
You Have Given Me a Country

Spalding University 845 South Third St. Louisville, Kentucky 40203
May 28-31 BFA Visiting-Writer-in-Residence


http://www.spalding.edu/

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