How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones

I think that what happened at First Republic was sort of a slow-motion reaction to what happened at Silicon Valley Bank, that first bank that failed. So tell us about why first Republic Bank ultimately went under. And it was even bigger as a bank than the previous two that failed. In fact, a third bank, First Republic Bank, collapsed.

And after these two banks had failed, Silicon Valley Bank, then a couple of days later Signature Bank, the hope, and I’d say the expectation, was that this crisis might be over. So, Jeanna, another day, another bank failure. Today, I speak with my colleague, Jeanna Smialek, about whether we’re at the end of this banking crisis or the start of a new phase of financial pain. On Monday morning, the federal government took over a third failing bank, this time, First Republic. michael barbaroįrom “The New York Times,” I’m Michael Barbaro. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email with any questions. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. This transcript was created using speech recognition software. Now What? The seizing of First Republic by regulators could signal the end of the banking crisis. How We Fight for Our Lives is a one-of-a-kind memoir and a book that cements Saeed Jones as an essential writer for our time.Transcript A Third Bank Implodes. Each piece builds into a larger examination of race and queerness, power and vulnerability, love and grief: a portrait of what we all do for one another-and to one another-as we fight to become ourselves.Īn award-winning poet, Jones has developed a style that's as beautiful as it is powerful-a voice that's by turns a river, a blues, and a nightscape set ablaze. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence-into tumultuous relationships with his family, into passing flings with lovers, friends, and strangers. Haunted and haunting, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir about a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. The 'I' it seems doesn't exist until we are able to say, 'I am no longer yours.'' We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. 'We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. 'People don't just happen,' writes Saeed Jones. One of the best books of the year as selected by The New York Times The Washington Post NPR Time The New Yorker O, The Oprah Magazine Harper's Bazaar Elle BuzzFeed Goodreads and many more. From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives-winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award-is a 'moving, bracingly honest memoir' ( The New York Times Book Review) written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power.

How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones