The Noble Hustle
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From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys ⢠âWhitehead proves a brilliant sociologist of the poker world.â âThe Boston Globe
In 2011, Grantland magazine gave bestselling novelist Colson Whitehead $10,000 to play at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. It wasâŚ
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In a self-conscious effort to re-enact Positively Fifth Streetâs reimagining of the writerâs journey, Grantland Magazine assigned Colson Whitehead to cover the 2011 World Series in exchange for the $10,000 entry fee. He falls short of matching McManusâ success on the felt, but thatâs not really the point: the meat is in the interaction between the poker and Whiteheadâs struggle with depression. Which might be unbearable in the hands of anyone other than Colson Whitehead, maybe the best there is at crafting sentences that will make you laugh and wince at the same time.
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