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What the decade looked like from inside an apartment — the body, the habits, the rituals nobody watches. Solitude and its furniture, the daily logistics of eating and drinking, the maintenance of a life, mental health and spiritual practice, sex and dating, drugs and gambling, the ordinariness of petty violence, children, and disability.
The Private Life
- 10.1Alone in the Apartment: The Television, the Phone, and the Texture of Solitude, 1989–2001
- 10.2The Body's Daily Logistics: Eating, Drinking, and the Long Death of the Lunch, 1989–2001
- 10.3The Maintenance of a Life: Smoke, Mail, and the Domestic Interior, 1989–2001
- 10.4The Couch and the Capsule: Mental Health as Lived Practice, 1989–2001
- 10.5Higher Powers: Twelve-Step, Yoga, and the New Metaphysics, 1989–2001
- 10.6Bodies, Sex, and the Logistics of Desire, 1989–2001
- 10.7The Score: Drug Acquisition as Lived Practice, 1989–2001
- 10.8Money Out of Pocket: Gambling, Vice, and the Cash Economy, 1989–2001
- 10.9Ordinary Violence: Petty Crime, Harassment, and the Managed Risk, 1989–2001
- 10.10Children and Parenthood in New York, 1989–2001
- 10.11The Six-Inch Curb: Disability and Accessibility, 1989–2001