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The value of experience in an increasingly online world
A little over a decade ago, I came across a book by David Eagleman, a neuroscientist I had interacted with (and whose research I’d written about) many times. This particular work—unlike his other writing—was fiction: “Sum: Forty Tales from...
An introduction to a con artist for the ages
Pamela Colloff shares an excerpt from her new book, “Catch the Devil”
Con artists have long been an obsession of mine, so much so that, once upon a time, I wrote an entire book about them. As I was researching The Confidence Game, I spent...
For Amy
A memory twenty-five years in the making
Back when I was a tween and early teen, I—as so many others my age—used to babysit for my neighbors’ kids. There were two of them. Anna, a precocious toddler with brilliant red hair, and J, an infan...
Nobody reads anymore
The case for books and paying attention
A few weeks back, I met a journalist friend of mine for coffee in San Francisco. I’m not sure how the conversation took the turn it did (though most of my conversations these days, especially with fe...
Fake it 'til you make it
Lessons from my (mis)-adventures in the bartending trade
Sometime in the late 2000s, I was fired from my job for the first and only time in my life. The job in question: bartending at a West Village bar, with beautiful views and specialty...
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