What to do once you’re laid off… Hmm… Maybe explore a new career as a hit man? Here’s a link to the very best corporate-castoff-killer book: Donald Westlake‘s bitterly hilarious thriller, The Ax. And since you now have plenty of time to read, you can also check out Iain Levinson’s Since the Layoffs.
Think that out-and-out vagrancy is where we’re headed? Then revisit Steinbeck‘s The Grapes of Wrath, or maybe pick up dumpster-diving tips from Lars Eigner’s classic memoir, Travels with Lisbeth.
Done with fiction? Settling in for the long decline? Here’s the book for you: Capital.

