Scott Borchert is a writer and former assistant editor at Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. He holds an MA in cultural reporting and criticism from the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, and his work has appeared in Southwest Review, Monthly Review, The Rumpus, PopMatters, Brooklyn Magazine, and more.
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The plan was as idealistic as it was audacious-and utterly unprecedented. Take thousands of broke writers and put them to work charting a country on the brink of social and economic collapse, with the aim of producing a rich and beguiling series of guideb... SEE MORE