David Roberts || Sparks From Culture
David Roberts, a. natasha joukovsky, Allison Tait, Mic'd and MedicatedWeekly personal essays on wealth, status, and family from someone with generational wealth, writing with transparency.
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I Was Saved From Humiliation By My Father When I Was Sixteen
This reprised vignette about my father and me is top of mind because tomorrow is Father’s Day, and this week my father turns 89.
Below, from a while ago, my father and his three sons. According to my wife Debbie, I (far left) look possess...
This Is News
When something is so pervasive, it becomes difficult to separate it from our reality. That’s the point of David Foster Wallace’s famous 2005 commencement speech This is Water.
In the parable that opens Wallace’s speech, an older fish asks...
Wealth Derangement Syndrome Comes For Belle Burden
Belle Burden is the author of the best-selling memoir Strangers about her husband’s sudden and brutal abandonment of her and their children after twenty plus years of what Belle thought was a happy marriage. 1
Belle was born into a promine...
Scenes From My Marriage
I finished re-watching the HBO series Scenes From A Marriage about the devastation of a ten-year-old marriage. It led me to ask my wife Debbie what our marriage was like after ten years time, circa the mid 1990s. I needed Debbie’s help to r...
Tell Me What Trumpism Stands For
The philosopher Diogenes searching for a wise, or honest, man.
My original essay on this topic in March 2025 began with the personal confession below in italics:
My older son Andrew is my Devil’s Advocate. He challenges me to keep an open...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Writer of the Substack Sparks From Culture; zealous fan of my family, my Shih Tzu, all things Substack, NYC (lifelong resident); forty year career in finance, now a writer.
author of the novels THE PORTRAIT OF A MIRROR and MEDIUM RARE
Dennis I. Belcher Professor of Law * Author of The House That Family Money Built * Loves cats and pastries * Hates gender norms and wealth inequality
We say what you’re thinking but don’t say out loud. Mic’d and Medicated is two NYC moms oversharing to build real community. When we say the unsayable, someone always writes: I thought I was the only one. You’re not.
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