Nor has he had time to read the spate of new books about how he and two Treasury secretaries, Henry M. Paulson Jr. and Timothy F. Geithner, navigated a maelstrom that left millions of Americans jobless, homeless or broke.
As we first see him, he is so broke and so isolated living in a squalid Manhattan apartment that he has been reduced to reading and rereading the adoring letters of a single fan, a woman from Flaxton, Mo.
You're too broke to be quirky.
Along with talking about the teens, the three reminisced about being broke, read each other's auras, and pitched their own Titanic spinoffs. .
Along with talking about the teens, the three reminisced about being broke, read each other's auras, and pitched their own Titanic spin-offs.
"I was broke, broke, broke, down to my last $100".
"Me likey Broke Girls," the tweet read.
If you're lucky, your labor of love is very exciting for a year or two, and then... well, and then you're broke, all your submissions read like the same lame-o workshop poem, and all your friends hate you for not publishing their work.
In Maniac's parallel New York City, there's a Statue of Extra Liberty and the advertising is more insidious (if you're broke, a human "Ad Buddy" can read you commercials to pay for everyday things like MetroCards and cups of coffee).
(I recently heard a writer tell a story about how when he was young and broke, he would steal books, read them carefully, and then sneak them back onto the shelves at the store — not stealing, precisely, but still illegal).
