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The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art

Donald N. Thompson

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Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit

Ashley Mears • 2 highlights

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The Pleasure of Punishment (Routledge Advances in Criminology)

Magnus Hörnqvist

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The bottle service club today pitches Goffman’s “action” to the world’s new elite; it encourages the rich to flaunt their riches, to display wealth for display’s sake. Bottle service clubs are predicated on conspicuous consumption, a term coined, in 1899, by Thorstein Veblen, the quirky Norwegian American economist.

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What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?

Claire Dederer theparisreview.org

The Monster of Florence

Douglas Preston

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Friendship and Gender Rebellion in Nineties San Francisco

Crispin Long newyorker.com

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American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst

Jeffrey Toobin

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