World’s Youngest Relic: Master of the New Old Journalism

The summer of 1988, David Samuels was between his junior and senior years at Harvard and decided he wanted to cover the Republican convention in New Orleans.

His journalism experience had been limited to writing parodies of news items for the Harvard Lampoon, and he had little in the way of access set up Read More

Ivy League Phony, Real Thing Author

THE RUNNER: A TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE AMAZING ADVENTURES AND FANTASTICAL LIES OF THE IVY LEAGUE IMPOSTER JAMES HOGUE
By David Samuels
The New Press, 176 pages, $22.95


ONLY LOVE CAN BREAK YOUR HEART
By David Samuels
The New Press, 370 pages, $26.95

“The fact,” writes David Read More