The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death

by Colson Whitehead

an-he-do-nia: the inability to experience pleasure

On the Simian Scale, I was more Bubbles the chimp, break-dancing for cigarette and gin money before Michael Jackson rescued him from the streets.

I’d never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I’d had since birth (unathleticism).

People, as ever, are the problem. The more people there are, the tougher you have it. Just by sitting next to you, they fuck you up, as if life were nothing more than a bus ride to hell (which it is).

the angry voices in your head are now using Auto-Tune.