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Mary Ann Gwinn

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Book critic. Kirkus Prize juror/2024. Bylines in @latimesbooks, @KirkusReviews. Pulitzer winner and juror. Hanging at @gwinnma.bsky.social
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A Worker in China’s Gig Economy Shares His Story

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By Mary Ann Gwinn
| Kirkus Reviews
Hu Anyan was just one of millions of gig workers sweating it out in China’s vast economy. Then he began to keep a journal. He wrote about the exhaustion of round-the-clock work schedules, and the brain fog that settled in after months on the night shift. He wrote about trying to deliver packages to a crane operator who never came down from the sky. He wrote about bringing a kitchen knife to work at a women’s clothing store to defend against an enraged competitor. Years passed, and Hu kept writing.
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Jill Lepore on What the Constitution Means to Us

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By Mary Ann Gwinn
| Kirkus Reviews
The U.S. Constitution is one of the oldest and most influential documents in the world. It has stood the test of time, but its strength is also its fundamental flaw: Today it’s almost impossible to change. The older the constitution, “the more people hold [it] with a kind of veneration, especially if [it’s] infrequently amended,” says Jill Lepore, Harvard professor, New Yorker contributor, and author of We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution (Liveright, September 16).
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Review: Mark Twain is known for his sense of humor — but he also savored revenge

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By Mary Ann Gwinn
| Los Angeles Times
Book Review Mark Twain By Ron Chernow Penguin Press: 1,200 pages, $45 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Mark Twain was America’s first celebrity, a multiplatform entertainer loved and recognized all over the world. Fans from America to Europe to Australia bought his books and flocked to his one-man shows, and his potent doses of humor and hard truth enthralled both the highborn and the humble.
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