Description: In keeping with its tradition of sending writers out into America to take the pulse of our citizens and our civilization, The New Yorker over the past several years has reported on how our unprecedented economy has changed the ways in which we live today. The New Gilded Age offers the best of these stories in a volume about America 2000, here, today, now: Susan Orlean on real estate brokers; Joan Didion on Martha Stewart; Malcolm Gladwell on marketing; John Cassidy on Alan Greenspan; John Updike on the sentimental value of the penny; and a handful of inimitable, thank-God-for-her Roz Chast cartoons. Also included are moving profiles of people the economy has left behind: a struggling literary-fiction writer; the former girlfriend of a drug dealer; a young woman fleeing her maxed-out credit cards. Put together, these stories make up a timely volume that many of The New Yorker's loyal 830,000 subscribers will want to read. Edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner David Remnick, The New Gilded Age is a collection of writing that is both current and classic, like The New Yorker itself.

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