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    "html": "<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I’ll admit it: I was suckered into reading Simon Pare-Poupart’s memoir about life as a garbage man, <em><a href=\"https://bookshop.org/p/books/trash-a-garbageman-s-story-simon-pare-poupart/a0ed751b6bd64f37?ean=9781685892494&amp;next=t\">Trash!</a></em>, because Dwight Garner compared the book to Anthony Bourdain’s <em>Kitchen Confidential</em>. I love well-written books about workers who provide services that most people don’t ever think about.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But <em>Trash!</em> is bad. It’s a macho, cliched, annoying (but mercifully short) book written by an incurious know-it-all. I don’t know what Dwight Garner was thinking when he reviewed this book, but I can tell you that if you do want to read a great tell-all about life on a garbage truck, you should skip <em>Trash!</em> and read Derf Backderf’s <a href=\"https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/trashed_9781419714535/\">excellent graphic memoir <em>Trashed</em></a>, instead.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" data-attachment-id=\"881\" data-permalink=\"https://paulconstant.com/2026/06/29/one-mans-trash-is-another-mans-trash/9781419714535_int03/\" data-orig-file=\"https://i0.wp.com/paulconstant.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/9781419714535_int03.jpg?fit=1200%2C801&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,801\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"9781419714535_int03\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https://i0.wp.com/paulconstant.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/9781419714535_int03.jpg?fit=1024%2C684&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/paulconstant.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/9781419714535_int03.jpg?resize=1024%2C684&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-881\" srcset=\"https://i0.wp.com/paulconstant.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/9781419714535_int03.jpg?resize=1024%2C684&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/paulconstant.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/9781419714535_int03.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/paulconstant.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/9781419714535_int03.jpg?resize=768%2C513&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/paulconstant.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/9781419714535_int03.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" /></figure>"
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  "title": "One Man’s Trash! Is Another Man’s Trash",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-25T02:28:01.000Z"
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