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Welcome to Sparks From Culture
Personal essays on life, literature, and privilege from the POV of generational wealth and living within the Manhattan bubble. Subscribers receive a…
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My Family Story of Generational Wealth
An immigrant's triumph, a few fortunate marriages, one family schism healed through wisdom, another family schism made permanent through betrayal.
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Imprecise Truths About The American Caste System From My Own Experience
First, an update on my brother Samuel's defense of his unjustly arrested client.
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At A Murder Trial In Queens, New York With My Brother
An attorney's opening statement is a story
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An Open Message To The Top 0.1%
Opinions should be formed with more thought than choosing which hat to wear
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A Much Needed Adjustment To My Factory Settings On Marriage and Children
An update on the ongoing project of opening my mind.
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You Had Me At A Glance
The beautiful girl, the silver wig, and the hot nightclub with its impassable velvet rope
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What We Don’t Talk About When We Don’t Talk About Sex
I have never discussed my married sex life with anyone other than a doctor and my wife Debbie, with whom discussion has always been beside the point…
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My Candor Writing About Wealth Comes With A Price
How Adelle Waldman’s new novel Help Wanted is a Rorschach test for me about wealth and modern American capitalism
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A Fight Reveals The Fault Lines in My Marriage
Confessions Of A Happily Married Husband
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Finding My Vocation On Substack As I Turn 62
A passion for writing defeats my birthday blues
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Empathy For The Devil
Cultivating empathy for loathsome people
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Sparks from Culture by David Roberts
Sparks from Culture by David Roberts
A rare opportunity to learn about wealth, class, and capitalism from someone with generational wealth writing with transparency
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