"From bestselling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial disintegration. Frances Price-- tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature-- is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there's the...

Bankruptcy and the austerity it represents have become a common "solution" for struggling American cities. What do the spending cuts and limited resources do to the lives of city residents? Kirshner follows seven Detroiters as they navigate life during and after their city's bankruptcy. For them, financial issues are mired within the larger ramifications of poor urban policies, restorative negligence on the state and federal level and-- even before...

September 2019: Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin and a company controlled by the infamous billionaire Sackler family, filed for bankruptcy to protect itself from lawsuits for its role in fueling the U.S. overdose crisis. Hampton served as co-chair of the official creditors committee that acted as a watchdog during the process, and entered the case believing that exposing the Sacklers and mobilizing against Purdue would be enough to right the...