Profane Waste: Essay by Gretchen Rubin and Photographs by Dana Hoey

Jewels buried in a grave, cigarettes smoked in $100 bills, champagne poured into a bathtub—these perverse, irrational acts are also somehow thrilling. Profane Waste explores the workings of an unacknowledged taboo: the taboo against willful dissipation. Dana Hoey, an acclaimed photographer appearing here in her first book, presents a series of 30 haunting images that are at once ultra-real and uncanny. Bestselling biographer and social critic Gretchen Rubin uses lucid analysis and explosive...