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Jon Ronson
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in Cardiff, Wales, The United Kingdom
May 10, 1967
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An excerpt from The Psychopath Test, about a guest booker for the kind of daytime TV show where families mired in tragedy yell at each other.
“What did your job entail?” I asked her.
“We had a hotline,” Charlotte explained. “Families in crisis who want to be on TV called the hotline. My job was to call them back, repeatedly, over a matter of weeks, even if they’d changed their minds and decided not to do the show. There had to be a show. You had to keep going.”
Of course lots of jobs involve relentlessly calling people back. It is soul de
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
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2011
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74 editions
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
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2015
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64 editions
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Them: Adventures with Extremists
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2001
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35 editions
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The Men Who Stare at Goats
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published
2004
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79 editions
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Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries
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published
2012
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24 editions
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The Elephant in the Room
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2016
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4 editions
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The Butterfly Effect
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2017
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4 editions
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The Last Days of August
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2019
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5 editions
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Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie
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2014
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15 editions
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Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness
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2006
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6 editions
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“There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.”
― The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
― The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
“I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe.”
― The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
― The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
“But we know that people are complicated and have a mixture of flaws and talents and sins. So why do we pretend that we don’t?”
― So You've Been Publicly Shamed
― So You've Been Publicly Shamed
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