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Madeline Lane-McKinley

Madeline Lane-McKinley is a writer, editor, and adjunct lecturer with a PhD in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her book Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times will be published by Common Notions in fall 2022.

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Intrinsic to what we hate about work is that we can’t imagine life outside of it.

Madeline Lane-McKinley

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