Copyright © 2014 Kerry Cohen
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“Where Nothing Bad Can Happen” by Monica Drake was previously published in The Rumpus (therumpus.net).
“Let’s See How Fast This Baby Will Go” by Gloria Harrison was previously broadcast on “This American Life.”
“Shopping for Breasts” by Wendy Staley Colbert was previously published at Salon.
“The Book Money” by Aryn Kyle was previously published in More magazine as “How I lost $500,000 for Love.”
A portion of “Mother Lode” by Nancy Rommelmann was previously published in LA Weekly.
ISBN 978-1-58005-513-0
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Spent: exposing our complicated relationship with shopping / [edited by] Kerry Cohen.
pages cm
1. Shopping--Humor. 2. Women consumers. I. Cohen, Kerry. II. Title.
PN6231.S5467S66 2014
813’.01083553--dc23
2014009455
Published by Seal Press
A Member of the Perseus Books Group
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Berkeley, California
Cover by Elke Barter Design
Interior Design by Kate Basart/Union Pageworks
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