The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
The Noble Hustle is Pulitzer finalist Colson Whitehead’s hilarious memoir of his search for meaning at high stakes poker tables, which the author describes as “ Eat, Pray, Love for depressed shut-ins.…
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