Prairie Lights, Iowa City, and @dygottlieb.bsky.social and Kate Grandjean sitting next to each other (with Team Kate and Never Thursday writing groups…😍)

Summertime and the listenin' is easy: Charles Ponce de Leon talks Rolling Stone and hip capitalism on WMC this month.

For graduates today, the prospect of starting a career is often tinged with dread. How did white-collar work come to look so bleak? newyorkermag.visitlink.me/1qq_Jf

You truly love to see it (!!)

To read while awaiting Thursday's Knicks parade: a deep, wise, and totally unexpected YUPPIES write-up in this week's @newyorker.com. .

Great fun to talk YUPPIES (and the Knicks!) on @skippedhistory.bsky.social with Ben Tumin this week. open.spotify.com/episode/6epB...

I’ve got two books I want to read IMMEDIATELY— both by two amazing historians (and people): @dygottlieb.bsky.social’s Yuppies and Kate Grandjean’s Kingdom of Devils. Very different topics, both fantastic works of history worth reading right now!

Thanks, Paul--what a sharp and generous review. Beers on me next time!

My friend handed @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social a copy of YUPPIES after the @bookculture.com event(!!!) I can die happy.

NEW YORK: come assuage your Knicks angst with me. Tonight at 7pm--Kim Phillips-Fein and I talk YUPPIES at @bookculture.com on 112th.

This one hit on multiple fronts as the child of NYC yuppies (and arguably one myself). Thanks @dygottlieb.bsky.social for your excellent book 📕 and the conversation.

In the 1980s, yuppies quickly put their stamp on cities around the country, displacing working class people and remaking the Democratic Party. Historian @dygottlieb.bsky.social examines whether they were drivers of financialization or crucial cogs in the machine. kpfa.org/episode/agai...

Thanks to @annehelen.bsky.social for the great convo about the travails of the professional class (and Peggy from Mad Men!) in today's Culture Study.

Ever wonder how Wall St. got so powerful? Why your urban rent is so expensive? Or why so many young professionals are obsessed with fitness? Come find out on my Reddit AMA on r/AskHistorians--I'll be there talking YUPPIES all morning.

Dylan Gottlieb is author of “Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York". He joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the social and political changes Yuppies brought throughout the country.

Thanks, @sindap.bsky.social, for a fair-minded (even generous!) review of YUPPIES in the @financialtimes.com today. Yet again underscoring FT > WSJ www.ft.com/content/83aa...

This @americanbookseller.bsky.social Independent Press bestseller list ain't quite the @nytimes.com, but at least I'm in good company next to Anton Jaeger. (And only 16 spots behind Franz Fanon lmao)

🚨 🚨 ONLINE TONIGHT: a deep dive into yuppies and the remaking of NYC with the inimitable Sharon Zukin, hosted by @gothamcenter.bsky.social 🚨 🚨 Join us! www.gothamcenter.org/upcoming-eve...

Now on @thisguysucked.com: It’s yuppie time with @dygottlieb.bsky.social! You can tell us how much this doesn’t apply to you as you jog past us.

PHILLY: tonight, @brentcebul.bsky.social and I talk yuppies. 6:30pm at Headhouse Books

This is going to be a fun conversation about Dylan's fascinating work. Come join us if you can!

Tonight: @kevinmkruse.bsky.social and I talk Perrier, jogging, and finance at 6pm at Labyrinth Books.

🎉 Today is PUB DAY for YUPPIES 🎉 Join me: 5/12: @harvardbookstore.bsky.social w/ @quinnslobodian.com 5/14: Labyrinth Books w/ @kevinmkruse.bsky.social 5/15: Headhouse Books w/ @brentcebul.bsky.social 5/19: @gothamcenter.bsky.social w/ Sharon Zukin 6/9: @bookculture.com w/ Kim Phillips-Fein

📆 Tues. 5/12 @ 7PM: "Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast" cohost Dylan Gottlieb joins us in store to discuss his new book, "Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York", in conversation with Professor Quinn Slobodian. More info: buff.ly/mVkiFv5

This was SO fun--can't wait

Boston/Cambridge folks: come help me launch YUPPIES with @quinnslobodian.com at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social. Tomorrow at 7pm

Hey look, it's @dygottlieb.bsky.social in the @bostonglobe.com, interviewed about college, finance, inequality, and how it's all yuppies' fault! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/07/a...

In Opinion “Perhaps we were too dismissive of the yuppies. So much of what we take for granted today — from our meritocratic rat race to our gentrified neighborhoods to our culture of overwork, fitness training and foodie obsession — was born in the yuppie-made 1980s,” Dylan Gottlieb writes.

Thanks! Coincidentally just ordered your book, too.

Check out @dygottlieb.bsky.social's awesome essay in the NYT today, then go buy the book! He manages to connect banking deregulation to marathons, sushi, arson, and everything in between. A tour de force!! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/o...

Change in Headline

In today's @nytimes.com, I went deep on yuppies -- the young professionals who are now so ubiquitous that we've ceased to notice them.

First time, long time -- a treat to join @doughenwood.bsky.social on Behind the News.

OAH was quite therapeutic (thanks to everyone who let me vent 😆), and the highlight was celebrating @dygottlieb.bsky.social ‘s forthcoming book YUPPIES!

About to head to Philly for the @oah.org conference! If you'll be there, check out my book at the @harvardpress.bsky.social booth. And if you see me, come say hello, and I'll share the details for my Friday night book launch party (co-hosted with the inimitable @jessicaannlevy.bsky.social).

They're here, and they're spectacular. Thanks to all for your help over the decade-plus it's taken to get here.

How did law firms and other professional workplaces become places of such crushing and soulless work? An Essay by @dygottlieb.bsky.social

“From Seattle to NYC, young professionals whisper that their firms have become ‘sweatshops’: factories where profits are squeezed out of their white-collar labour force. The exclusionary status quo of the previous mid-century has given way to something more diverse – yet much more exploitative.”

Why did elite professionals start calling their firms "sweatshops"? And who reaped the rewards of all that work? Read this excerpt from my new book, Yuppies, to find out.

I have finally secured physical copies for all four of the first books my former students put out this year so you people are going to hear about them again.

My former student @dygottlieb.bsky.social has his amazing first book coming out in May. It's all about the way NYC helped create the "yuppies" and how those yuppies then remade NYC. It's brilliant. You'll never think about Zagat's or the NYC Marathon the same way, trust me. Pre-order here:

This one's 🔥🔥🔥 (and more than a little terrifying).

Excellent mail day! @devintoshea.bsky.social @dygottlieb.bsky.social 👀👀👀

This month, we've got a VERY special episode: co-host @jessicaannlevy.bsky.social comes on to talk about her remarkable new @pennpress.bsky.social book, Black Power Inc., with @dygottlieb.bsky.social. Double the hosts, double the fun! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...

Here's hoping she and the rest of the Lehman Brothers squad will be there, too.

Mark your calendars: on May 12, @quinnslobodian.com and I go deep on yuppies at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social www.harvard.com/event/dylan-...

Well hello there @dygottlieb.bsky.social! So excited to jump into this! Congratulations!

I wrote about the Epstein files (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...

This was a fun one--thanks Sean