WRITING FOR THE ENEMY

By MARTHA KNOLL

I recently lost half my job at a left-wing paper. I wasn’t bitter. I just started writing for a right-wing newspaper in my spare time. At first I was like, Ha, fuck you, irony. I’m like a double agent or one of the C-Five who snuck into Cambridge University and rose to high levels in various parts of the civil service. Except I’m not doing PPE, I’m writing about why motherhood is more important than feet and sunlight. I thought perhaps I could subvert capitalism from the inside, introduce readers to a little tacit left-wing chutzpah. That was bullshit though.

They smelled my peachy youth and wooed me with money and now I’ve had more words published in the last two months than in two years at the left-wing paper. The money is really, really good too. And you know what, I don’t think Polish builders are so shit-hot, and I do think middle England is pretty agreeable.

Read more on the Vice blog.

By MARTHA KNOLL 2 years ago

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