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Michael Greenberg ist ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller.

Greenberg wuchs als Sohn eines Altmetallhändlers in New York City auf. Nach seinem Studium war er einige Zeit als Dolmetscher für Spanisch tätig und arbeitete in verschiedenen Gelegenheitsjobs. 2008 erschien sein Werk Hurry Down Sunshine, in dem er die psychische Erkrankung seiner Tochter Sally in literarischer Form protokollierte. Die deutsche Übersetzung erschien 2009 unter dem Titel Der Tag an dem meine Tochter verrückt wurde bei Hoffmann und Campe. 2009 veröffentlichte er mit Beg, Borrow, Steal ein autobiografisches Werk über sein Schriftstellerleben in der Metropole New York. Unter dem Titel Betteln, Borgen, Stehlen erschien die deutsche Übersetzung 2010 bei Hoffmann und Campe.

Greenberg schreibt als Kolumnist für die Zeitschriften The Times Literary Supplement, The Village Voice, The New York Review of Books und Boston Review. Wikipedia

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“When I asked Amin [Husain] and Katie [Davison] what Occupy Wall Street’s ultimate goal was, they said, “A government accountable to the people, freed up from corporate influence.” … Organizers described Occupy Wall Street as “a way of being,” of “sharing your life together in assembly.” … The ambitions of the core group of activists were more cultural than political, in the sense that they sought to influence the way people think about their lives. “Ours is a transformational movement,” Amin told me with a solemn air. Transformation had to occur face to face; what it offered, especially to the young, was an antidote to the empty gaze of the screen.
In meetings and elsewhere, this Tolstoyan experience of undergoing a personal crisis of meaning, both political and of the soul, seemed deeply shared. Apart from Amin, I’ve met an architect, a film editor, an advertising consultant, an unemployed stock trader, a spattering of lawyers, and people with various other jobs who, after joining OWS, found themselves psychologically unable to go about their lives as before. … Michael Ellick, the minister at Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village, said that when he first visited Zuccotti Park he was reminded of his years at a monastery. “When people enter a monastery, they don’t know why they’ve come,” said Ellick. “They are there to find out why they are there, why they were compelled to leave the other world.””

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Michael Greenberg

“What Future for Occupy Wall Street?” The New York Review of Books, vol. 59, no. 2, February 9, 2012