Questions of privilege, mythology and identity We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Declan Fry Normal text size Transit Lounge, $29.99 A new genre is emerging. Call it ‘‘I’m one of the good ones’’ lit: writing in which authors acknowledge the limits and privileges of their subject position without ever having to sacrifice anything materially. The field is recognisable for its ‘‘defensive crouch, a bid to put [oneself] down before others can’’, as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote in her review of Barack Obama’s new memoir. Credit: Aaron Smith, a self-described ‘‘boozy newshound with a shady past’’ (the combination of machismo and ridiculousness is entirely typical), has previously published two travelogues. His third book, though billed as memoir, is more a grab-bag of personal and sociocultural reflections inspired partly by his six-year stint as chief of staff, senior journalist, and paperboy for