Gonsub Cultures - What I Learned From It

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Gonsub Cultures: What were your like first experiences with report at Gonsubcultures and what were the sort of important things you learned about trying to pick up the language. I guess for me it started with when I was at a newspaper for I worked at the Chicago Tribune for nine years before going to the New Yorker. The stories are often impossible to fact check and all these kinds of things but one of the things I loved hearing about was how they looked at the city These are people without homes who look at the city in a different way than people with home.

Evan Osnos is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His new book is Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury.

“I'm always trying to get inside a subculture. That's the thing that I think has been the most enduring, attractive element for me. Is there a world that has its own manners and vocabulary and internal rhythms and status structure? And who looks down on whom? And why? And who venerates whom? Who's a big deal in these worlds? And if I can get into that, it doesn't even really matter to me that much what the subculture is. I'm fascinated by trying to map that thing out.”

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