Ligaya Mishan
Ligaya Mishan writes for the New York Times. She has won a James Beard Award and twice been a finalist for the National Magazine Awards. Her essays have been selected for the Best American anthologies in magazine, food, and travel writing, and her criticism has appeared in the New York Review of Books and The New Yorker.
Morning can be cruel. Everything that seemed possible under cover of darkness disintegrates in the sun’s glare. Three men sit stunned on a couch staring at the debris of their revelries—cocaine on a silver tray, a bottle of Wild Turkey—and start to question their lives, toiling on the assembly line at the car factory and surviving on credit, constantly buying things but owning nothing.
