: Tanzer treats running as a structural tool for his life and writing, using the physical act of exertion to process anxieties about aging, fatherhood, and his father’s death.
This 2010 book is a series of "musings" written during the winter of 2009 while Tanzer prepared for various runs.
: The essay offers a "threefold" lesson for citizens: do not consent to searches, know the "reasonable suspicion" criteria, and record the encounter. 2. The Personal Essay Collection (Ben Tanzer)
: A line-by-line breakdown of a 1994 traffic stop where Jay-Z (as a young drug dealer) is pulled over while carrying "raw" (cocaine) in his trunk.
Because of the song's massive cultural impact, the "99 Problems" phrasing is frequently used as a framework for long-form analysis in other fields: Book Review : Ben Tanzer - 99 Problems - Dead End Follies