Elvia Wilk Wrote About Her Experience Becoming A Corporation

by | October 3, 2025

For Cleveland Review of Books, Elvia Wilk wrote an essay about incorporating herself as ELVIA INC., “under the illusion that the only way to keep being a writer was to become a corporation.” She told Study Hall, “But instead of manifesting a million dollars I crashed my car, got dommed by Hobbes’ Leviathan, and was ransomed by the IRS.” 

Wilk’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, n+1, Bookforum, and Frieze

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