Lauren Wilkinson Wants to Buy Happiness

March 26, 2019

For The Cut‘s compelling “Get That Money” series, Lauren Wilkinson reflects on living in tenuous financial balance in her 20s, and feeling, 10 years and a lot of MFA-based debt later, that no amount of money will ever be “enough.” Plus, some good advice for aspiring writers. You can also find Wilkinson’s 2018 Year in Reading post here.

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is a staff writer for The Millions. Born and raised in New York, she now lives in the Midwest, where she is a PhD student in American literature.