“Strangled By Labels” in Across The Margin
What were you doing in the fall of 2007? I just turned twenty-four years old and was living in a studio apartment in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. I had been in New York City for a year and a half. I moved from a small town in Connecticut for a big job at Simon and Schuster as a managing editorial assistant. My life was full with my on-again, off-again boyfriend, weekly boozy brunches on Sundays, and trips to visit friends, all scattered to new cities after college. I had no interest in the news or tabloids, busy reading everything I could from the free shelves at work, so while I remember the name Amanda Knox and the basic story — that she was accused of killing her roommate while studying abroad in Italy — I didn’t register anything more than that at the time. I haven’t thought about it since.