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Every time she came to a corner with a newsstand on it, Gilbert Wood was glaring out of the cover of People, aflame with sex and rage. But he still hadn’t called her,
Eve Babitz • Sex and Rage: A Novel
the discounts made it difficult for anyone to figure out the natural demand for their product.
Reeves Wiedeman • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
a Time cover story which revealed that hippies “scorn money—they call it ‘bread’” and remains the most remarkable, if unwitting, extant evidence that the signals between the generations are irrevocably jammed.
Joan Didion • Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Teenagers with undeveloped frontal lobes are effectively subject to twenty-four-hour social media surveillance, their every poor choice and dumbass move recorded for potentially cataclysmic posterity.
Meghan Daum • The Catastrophe Hour: Selected Essays
Chris Hayes • On the Internet, We’re Always Famous
but many of the cultural changes identified here have appeared around the world. For
Jean M. Twenge • Generations
Gore Vidal called Samantha a “hooker” in the pages of The Atlantic, in the voice of the purest most cynical cronyism: “Look, am I going to sit and weep every time a young hooker feels she’s been taken advantage of?” At any rate, there’s a chance that she knew she had some power, some sexual pull. And in just a year, I would know too. The next year
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