{"product_id":"servne","title":"Service, by NM Esc","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProse, chapbook, 52 pages, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eAmerica holds its bootstrap myths dear. The dignity of labor, the virtue of meritocracy, the power of a college education to facilitate upward class mobility. \u003cem\u003eService\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles a firsthand experience of millennial disillusionment: graduating into a recession \u0026amp; facing how threadbare those myths really are. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eService\u003c\/em\u003e is a prose record of the author’s first two jobs out of undergrad: one at a theater \/ nightclub, the other at a tobacconist \/ cigar store, both in Harvard Square. Through anecdotes \u0026amp; reflections, \u003cem\u003eService\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles the surreal experience of being a minimum wage worker beside one of the most prestigious universities in the world, in constant contact with the elitest of the elite, as well as tourists, students, runaways, \u0026amp; the local unhoused population.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAssembled ten years after the fact, \u003cem\u003eService\u003c\/em\u003e is a document of unlearning, as well as the physical \u0026amp; emotional experience of a particular kind of labor. Most of all, \u003cem\u003eService\u003c\/em\u003e is a begrudging love letter to a place, a time, \u0026amp; the people who made it bearable…\u0026amp; even fun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eNeon Mashurov (NM Esc) is a writer from Brooklyn and the post-Soviet diaspora currently pursuing an MFA at the University of San Diego’s cross-genre writing program. Their music writing, as NM Mashurov, has been published in Pitchfork, Stereogum, The Fader, IMPOSE Magazine, and elsewhere. Their poetry, as NM Esc, has been published or is forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eWe Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e, Black Warrior Review, Bombay Gin, Hobart Pulp, The Recluse, the Poetry Project’s House Party series, The Felt, Peach Magazine, Ghost City Press’s summer microchap series, and multiple chapzines. They are the current editor-in-chief of Alchemy, UCSD’s journal of experimental translation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NM Esc","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39557208637511,"sku":"SERVNE","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39557208670279,"sku":"SERVNEe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/servicefront.png?v=1671309423","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/servne","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}