A review by lifesaverscandyofficial
New Grub Street by George Gissing

5.0

I trucked along and I trucked along, reading this at the recommendation of my workshop prof last semester, being like, "haha, this is funny, this is about media twitter but in the 1880s," and then a character went on an extended monologue about moving to Chicago on a whim and having the most creatively prosperous time in his life and living in a boardinghouse with 12 actors and how his editor was the nicest man he knew and he saw Lake Michigan and I was like, oh wow, I've been thoroughly owned.