American Gambler
David Hill, Peter Richmond, Danny Funt, Peter Alson, Peter Fornatale, Ursula Lawrence, Gina FioreUpdates and dispatches from the research and writing of my forthcoming book, American Gambler (FSG).
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Book Club: Something for Nothing Chapters 4 & 5
A livestream lecture on the Gilded Age and "the gambling spirit"
Our current book club pick is Something for Nothing: Luck in America by Jackson Lears. We’re trying something new for this book: weekly livestream discussions. Tune in live e...
A life that shall be truly interesting
A reader's guide to Chapters 4 and 5 of Something for Nothing
This is the third of four reader’s guides for our book club pick: Something for Nothing: Luck in America by Jackson Lears. It covers Chapters 4 and 5.
Point of order
My desk in New York during one of many rounds of revisions of The Vapors
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the writing process, particularly as it pertains to writing book-length works of nonfiction, for obvious reasons. I have been tr...
Book Club: Something for Nothing Chapters 1-3
Watch now | A livestream lecture about the cultures of chance and control
Our current book club pick is Something for Nothing: Luck in America by Jackson Lears. We’re trying something new for this book: weekly livestream discussions. Tune...
The world's gone mad indeed
I was invited back on PBS NewsHour to discuss the latest scandal in the world of prediction markets. U.S. Special Forces soldier Gannon Ken Van Dyke was arrested after allegedly using classified information about a covert U.S. raid that cap...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Writing a book about gambling for FSG. Author of The Vapors. Player of games.
former staff @gq, sometimes @dailybeast + @espn. currently road tripper, curator of https://t.co/yGqt4cMdhJ. mixed media, past pieces, and prose.
My book about the sports betting boom is due out January 2026. My reporting has appeared in The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and the Columbia Journalism Review. I live in Charlotte with my wife, son, and cat.
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