I listened to this and it was so good I wished I had just read it. It's essays, so not all are 5 stars for me, but the ones that stood out were really special. My favourites were on prison abolition, and then the last one "The Hard Crowd" which reminded me of nothing as much as a Nan Goldin photograph with a completely unmistakable Gen X timestamp on it. So satisfying! The structure has her watching a youtube video of driving in 1970s San Francisco, and using the video to guide her reminiscences from the 80s and 90s. She manages to get from the Beats to Raymond Pettibon and a million places in between, and it was really touching and captured the ephemeral quality of early adulthood for a curious person.
The abolition essay was excellent, tracking the work of Ruth Wilson Gilmore (it's reprinted from the NYT --https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/magazine/prison-abolition-ruth-wilson-gilmore.html)--the essay gave me a lot to think about, including the refrain "Where life is precious, life *is* precious." Among other things Gilmore challenges the idea that prisons are disproportionately black, and talks about the complexity of race in prisons that goes beyond the new Jim Crow analysis that got more mainstreamed by Ava DuVernay's film 13th.
There are many more standouts in this collection of essays, and I really enjoyed her writing style.