Rob Walker
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born
December 16, 1968
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male
place of birth
Houston, TX, The United States
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Nonfiction
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April 2008
about this author
I write the Consumed column for the New York Times Magazine.
My book, Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are, was published in June 2008.
I joined Goodreads in April 2008, and my bookshelf tracks a) only what I've read since then, and b) only voluntary reading, leaving out the [many] books I sort of *have to* read for work and research.
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Object No. 94 of 100
[Bid on this Significant Object, with story by Victor LaValle, here.]
Who the hell goes to Portugal? In my family?
The question arose as my sister and I were going through my grandmother's things—her effects. She'd died of old age at Queens General Hospital and she'd been longing for it. Some people never want to go, but not her. She'd lived long (96 years), seen her grandkids ...
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Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are by Rob Walker (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.64 — 221 ratings — published 2008 3 editions |
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Letters from New Orleans by Rob Walker (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.18 — 71 ratings — published 2005 2 editions |
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Titans of Finance: True Tales of Money & Business by Rob Walker (Goodreads author), Josh Neufeld (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 2001 |
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I'm with the Brand: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are by Rob Walker (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published 2008 |
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Baby Animals (Chunkie Hunkies Series) by Rob Walker (Goodreads author) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009 |
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Farm Animals (Chunkie Hunkies Series) by Rob Walker (Goodreads author) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009 |
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July 2008,
Rob Walker
"I admit that I certainly counted myself among those who figured I was brandproof. After all, I'm a journalist who writes about this stuff for a living, so if anybody can "see through" it, it's me. Then Nike bought Converse." ...More
"I admit that I certainly counted myself among those who figured I was brandproof. After all, I'm a journalist who writes about this stuff for a living, so if anybody can "see through" it, it's me. Then Nike bought Converse." ...More
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