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Money Diaries
Telling the truth about money, one person's story at a time
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To Win Four Oscars, Sean Baker Had to Go Broke Again and Again
Baker has made a career of spending his own money to tell stories Hollywood wouldn’t. It paid off at the 97th Academy Awards.
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For the last five years, our “Money Diaries” series has been all about telling truths. In honour of Pride Month, we share some of the greatest conversations we’ve had with LGBTQ+ icons.
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Roxane Gay on Financial Independence: 'The Most Important Thing a Woman Can Do for Herself'
She's the best-selling author of 'Bad Feminist' and 'Hunger.' And until five years ago she'd never saved a penny. The author on her complicated relationship with money.
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How I was Conned by the “Fake German Heiress”
Rachel DeLoache Williams’ relationship with Anna Delvey began over drinks and infrared saunas, but it ended with a $60,000 bill, a grand jury, and a new understanding of friendship and financial crime.
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The World Wouldn't Make a Place for Angelica Ross. So She Made One for Herself
Before she was cast on 'Pose,' she worked at Arby's and Apple. Got kicked out of the Navy and Applebee's. The winding money journey of a new type of TV star.
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Emily Ratajkowski Is Not a Commodity
The actress, model and now writer tells us her money story, and all the intense contradictions about objectification it entails.
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It’ll Work Itself Out (It Actually Won’t)
He’d finally achieved what he’d always wanted. He was a writer, in New York, people knew his name. But under his bed was a plastic bin that contained — in the form of bills and notices — another man entirely. An addict and a debtor. And that man had come calling.
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Anthony Bourdain Does Not Want to Owe Anybody Even a Single Dollar
Before he was the guy from Parts Unknown, he was 44, never had a savings account, hadn't filed taxes in 10 years, and was AWOL on his AmEx bill. That turned out to be a great financial education.
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Shangela Would Like to Remind You to Tip Your Drag Queen
The perennial crowd favorite on 'RuPaul's Drag Race' talks wig economics and why resourcefulness is a vocational imperative.
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A Money Diary about subsidized housing, writing for “Saturday Night Live,” and getting into credit card debt from the actress (“Insecure”) and writer.
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Love and Crypto: The Hackatao Story
Just before their show at Christie's, the crypto-artist duo talk to us about money, marriage, and the blockchain.
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Karen Russell: A Brutally Honest Accounting of Writing, Money, and Motherhood
The novelist didn’t realize how fervently society wants to turn us into calculators — every action has a payment or a fee — until she had her first child. Here she reckons with motherhood’s ticking meter: every minute with her kids is work lost, and each minute writing subtracts from precious, un-price-able joy.
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Stories From Our New Economy: Bullish on Bidets Edition
Our new Money Diaries series tells stories of humans whose lives have been upended by this crisis. In this edition we meet four businesses (the owner of a bunker company, a bespoke distiller, a day-trading celebrity, and a bidet magnate) that took unexpected turns.
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Alison Roman Is the Patron Saint of Home Cooking and Everyone’s at Home
She always wanted to cook and never thought much about money. But life gets strange when everyone’s wondering what to do with half a pound of broccoli and some dry kidney beans and you know the answer. The chef and cookbook author on her pandemic money story.
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Pandemic Money Diaries — Panic at Trader Joe’s Edition
Our virus-era Money Diaries series tells stories of humans whose lives, financial and otherwise, have been upended. In our first edition: a grocery clerk, a weed dealer, the author Jon Mooallem, a restaurant manager, and a male escort.
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Cult Animator Carson Mell Decided Making Stuff Was More Important than College
The maker of the underground hit “Chonto,” writer on “Silicon Valley,” and author of "Cherry on Top" took a circuitous route to Hollywood success. A route that ran through the grocery store deli counter.