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What My Dad Gave His Shop

What My Dad Gave His Shop

T I looked at my father’s Yelp reviews, I choked up. They were not all positive, and of course I read the worst ones first. My dad, Frank, runs a high-fidelity audio-video store in San Francisco and also repairs the brands he sells. One reviewer gave him one star, noting that his turntables had sat in the shop for five weeks, untouched. It brought me back to all the school nights when we stayed at the store until 9 p.m. so he could finish a job that was overdue. Another guy complained that when he called, my dad picked up blurting, “What do you want? I’m vvvvvveeeerrrryyyy busy.” I remember...

November 20, 2020
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The Lawyer Whose Clients Didn’t Exist

The Lawyer Whose Clients Didn’t Exist

Image above: Buras Boat Harbor, in Buras, LouisianaIDung Nguyen, a 39-year-old Vietnamese fisherman living in Dickinson, Texas, decided to take his boat out early in the season. Peak shrimping in Texas’s Galveston Bay wouldn’t begin until mid-August, but Nguyen was saving to send his three children to college, so in April, he began heading out for four or five days at a time. Nguyen was accustomed to long days; he had come to America as a refugee in 1992 and had saved for years to buy his first boat. That season, the waters were calm and the catch was good; when he wasn’t harvesting shrimp,...

April 16, 2020
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The Housing Vultures | Francesca Mari

The Housing Vultures | Francesca Mari

AdvertisementSubmit a letter:Email usReviewed:by Aaron GlantzCustom House, 398 pp., $27.99“They control the people through the people’s own money.”—Louis BrandeisIn an alternate reality, the one progressives wanted, the government wouldn’t have bailed out the banks during the 2008 crash. When mortgage-backed securities began catching flame like newspaper under logs, the government would have prioritized struggling homeowners instead. It would have created a corporation to buy back the distressed mortgages and then worked to refinance those mortgages—lowering monthly payments to reflect the...

May 22, 2020
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