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Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States (P.S.)

by Pete Jordan  · 1 May 2007  · 372pp  · 96,474 words

. In fact, not long before, as a result of the explosion in San Francisco’s housing prices, my parents had been evicted from their own rent-controlled apartment of twenty-three years. Yet each time I counted the zeros of the listed housing prices in Colby, unbelievably, the figures came out the

Perfection

by Vincenzo Latronico  · 18 Mar 2025  · 88pp  · 29,578 words

in a chain going back weeks. Over brunches at home or at gallery openings they would trade information on the documents required to qualify for rent control—WBS, Sonderbedarf—and discuss whether it was worth paying for membership to the tenants’ union. They would enter the technical terms from their rental contracts

Do You Mind if I Cancel?: (Things That Still Annoy Me)

by Gary Janetti  · 21 Oct 2019  · 109pp  · 39,462 words

week. I’m off the other three. More time to not write. I live in a sixth-floor walk-up on Christopher Street in a rent-controlled apartment. The kind of tenement building that you usually see in movies about Italian immigrants or the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Walking my bicycle up

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)

by Mindy Kaling  · 1 Nov 2011

the dead of summer or winter they would wear those ribbed white tank tops grossly named wife beaters, which is how we knew they were rent-control tenants (if anyone wears year-round wife beaters, it is the same as saying they are enjoying the benefits of a

rent-controlled apartment). They also spoke a language with one another that seemed like a hybridized version of an Eastern European language and the incomprehensible mumble of

Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches From the Wrong Side of History

by Nellie Bowles  · 13 May 2024  · 207pp  · 62,397 words

demand private land be taken. “It was disappointing to hear you, Janice Hahn, mischaracterize Services Not Sweeps,” he said. “You’re talking about ‘we want rent control’? You’re too late on that. And so we’re going to have to take much more radical measures unless we want to see people

You're Not Doing It Right: Tales of Marriage, Sex, Death, and Other Humiliations

by Michael Ian Black  · 28 Feb 2012  · 204pp  · 63,571 words

not why she wants to move in together. She wants to move in with me because I have a rent-controlled apartment, which is New York City’s greatest and rarest treasure. Having a rent-controlled apartment in New York is like living in medieval Europe and having spices. “I really like living alone

Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge

by Cass R. Sunstein  · 23 Aug 2006

, or whether a significant increase in the minimum wage would increase unemployment, or whether the death penalty has a deterrent effect on crime, or whether rent control policies help or hurt poor tenants. In these cases, there is a great risk that error and confusion at the individual level will be replicated

My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel

by Ottessa Moshfegh  · 9 Jul 2018  · 217pp  · 69,892 words

the bodega, I felt like I was committing a crime, but I didn’t care. The only other slovenly people around were elderly Jews with rent-controlled apartments. But I was tall and thin and blond and pretty and young. Even at my worst, I knew I still looked good. My building

Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season

by Nick Heil  · 3 Feb 2009

from Chamonix. Brice put me up in his sister-in-law’s vacation condo; he and Caroline lived across town, in a modest but tasteful rent-controlled two-bedroom apartment. I spent a week visiting with them and others, including Brice’s old friend Harry Taylor, several members of the documentary film

Me Talk Pretty One Day

by David Sedaris  · 4 Jun 2001  · 221pp  · 67,514 words

than willing to criticize the detergent manufacturer. Patrick’s mugs were clean and neatly lined up on the drainboard. He lived alone in a tiny rent-controlled apartment filled with soft snack foods, letters from imprisoned radicals, and the sorts of newspapers that have no fashion section. His moving collective consisted of

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

by Matt Ridley  · 14 Aug 1993  · 474pp  · 136,787 words

You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing

by John Scalzi  · 28 Jan 2007  · 168pp  · 9,044 words

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self

by Danielle Evans  · 22 Sep 2010  · 206pp  · 64,720 words

The Accidental Theorist: And Other Dispatches From the Dismal Science

by Paul Krugman  · 18 Feb 2010  · 162pp  · 51,473 words

Roads to Berlin

by Cees Nooteboom and Laura Watkinson  · 2 Jan 1990  · 378pp  · 120,490 words

Mysteries of the Mall: And Other Essays

by Witold Rybczynski  · 7 Sep 2015  · 342pp  · 90,734 words

This Will Make You Smarter: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

by John Brockman  · 14 Feb 2012  · 416pp  · 106,582 words

The Fran Lebowitz Reader

by Fran Lebowitz  · 8 Nov 1994  · 208pp  · 67,890 words

The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It

by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge  · 1 Sep 2020  · 134pp  · 41,085 words

Why Government Is the Problem

by Milton Friedman  · 1 Feb 1993  · 25pp  · 7,179 words

Working

by Robert A. Caro  · 8 Apr 2019  · 182pp  · 64,847 words

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by Bill Perkins  · 27 Jul 2020  · 200pp  · 63,266 words

Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel

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by Tanja Hester  · 12 Feb 2019  · 231pp  · 76,283 words

The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape

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The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It

by Timothy Noah  · 23 Apr 2012  · 309pp  · 91,581 words

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The greatest trade ever: the behind-the-scenes story of how John Paulson defied Wall Street and made financial history

by Gregory Zuckerman  · 3 Nov 2009  · 342pp  · 99,390 words

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by Dani Rodrik  · 12 Oct 2015  · 226pp  · 59,080 words

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by Peter Singer and Jim Mason  · 1 May 2006  · 400pp  · 129,320 words

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The Passenger

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by The Virtual Community Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier-Perseus Books (1993)  · 26 Apr 2012

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by Steven Pinker  · 13 Feb 2018  · 1,034pp  · 241,773 words

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Bastard Tongues: A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages

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The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions

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Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone

by Eric Klinenberg  · 1 Jan 2012  · 291pp  · 88,879 words

Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America

by Alissa Quart  · 25 Jun 2018  · 320pp  · 90,526 words

Corbyn

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Tory Nation: The Dark Legacy of the World's Most Successful Political Party

by Samuel Earle  · 3 May 2023  · 245pp  · 88,158 words

23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

by Ha-Joon Chang  · 1 Jan 2010  · 365pp  · 88,125 words

How to Retire the Cheapskate Way

by Jeff Yeager  · 1 Jan 2013  · 212pp  · 70,224 words

Luxury Fever: Why Money Fails to Satisfy in an Era of Excess

by Robert H. Frank  · 15 Jan 1999  · 416pp  · 112,159 words

The Nanny State Made Me: A Story of Britain and How to Save It

by Stuart Maconie  · 5 Mar 2020  · 300pp  · 106,520 words

Bleeding Edge: A Novel

by Thomas Pynchon  · 16 Sep 2013  · 532pp  · 141,574 words

The Blockchain Alternative: Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Theory

by Kariappa Bheemaiah  · 26 Feb 2017  · 492pp  · 118,882 words

Capitalism and Freedom

by Milton Friedman  · 1 Jan 1962  · 275pp  · 77,955 words

How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities

by John Cassidy  · 10 Nov 2009  · 545pp  · 137,789 words

The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World

by Brad Stone  · 30 Jan 2017  · 373pp  · 112,822 words

The Rent Is Too Damn High: What to Do About It, and Why It Matters More Than You Think

by Matthew Yglesias  · 6 Mar 2012  · 58pp  · 18,747 words

Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley

by Corey Pein  · 23 Apr 2018  · 282pp  · 81,873 words

The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class?and What We Can Do About It

by Richard Florida  · 9 May 2016  · 356pp  · 91,157 words

A Paradise Built in Hell: Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

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Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley

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There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

by Brian Goldstone  · 25 Mar 2025  · 512pp  · 153,059 words

Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

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by Don Watkins and Yaron Brook  · 28 Mar 2016  · 345pp  · 92,849 words

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

by Jia Tolentino  · 5 Aug 2019  · 305pp  · 101,743 words

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by Thomas J. Dilorenzo  · 9 Aug 2004  · 283pp  · 81,163 words

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I Hate the Internet: A Novel

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by Tom Slee  · 18 Nov 2015  · 265pp  · 69,310 words

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by Nassim Nicholas Taleb  · 27 Nov 2012  · 651pp  · 180,162 words

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by Jennifer Burns  · 18 Oct 2009  · 495pp  · 144,101 words

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by Binyamin Appelbaum  · 4 Sep 2019  · 614pp  · 174,226 words

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Arrival City

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