The Noble Hustle

Name: The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
ISBN: 9780385537056

Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death

Colson Whitehead

2015·234 pages·Nonfiction

Biography Literary Fiction

essays memoir satire satirical social commentary

In THE NOBLE HUSTLE Colson Whitehead does for participatory journalism what he did for zombie novels in ZONE ONE: Take one literary genius, add $10,000 and a seat at the World Series of Poker, and stir. On one level, Colson Whitehead's THE NOBLE HUSTLE is a familiar species of participatory journalism - a longtime neighborhood poker player, Colson was given a $10,000 stake and an assignment from the online ESPN offshoot Grantland to see how far he could get in the World Series of Poker. But since it stems from the astonishing mind of Colson Whitehead, the book is a brilliant, hilarious, weirdly profound and ultimately moving portrayal of - yes, it sounds overblown and ridiculous, but really! - the human condition

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