Paid subscribers get two extra issues a month. One of those is ET Ask Home, inspired by Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire (now featuring new questions for 2024). This month’s guest is policy analyst Alex Yablon.
Hi! Thanks for doing this. Please put down how you'd like to be identified here:
I'm a policy analyst for the New York City Council. For ten years I was a journalist covering a range of topics, most recently writing about economics and public policy, especially fiscal policy. I still mouth off about this stuff on Twitter, probably too much.
Is there a particular photo you'd like me to use? It doesn't have to be of you! It can be of, like, a dog.
What is a piece of writing (book, play, poem, etc) that you think of often?
I haven't actually read The Leopard, but the movie adaptation is among my all time favorites, and Tancredi's famous line "Everything must change for everything to remain the same" rings in my head all the time.
Other than that, the webcomic Achewood by Chris Onstad has some of my favorite prose writing ever.
What is the best piece of advice you ever received?
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