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Seth Kaufman has been a reporter for the NY Post’s Page Six and the Editorial Director of TV Guide.com. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, N.Y Observer and many other publications, including supermarket tabloids. "The King of Pain," his first work of satirical fiction, was called "One of 2012's most enjoyable novels," by the New York Times. The sequel, "Nuns with Guns,"was called "Literary gold," by Radar Online. His 2018 book of music essays, "Metaphysical Graffiti,: was dubbed "the best in creative nonfiction," by the British press.
His comic novel "The Seductive Lady Vanessa of Manhattanshire," is an inventive retelling of Don Quixote. He is the co-author of two acclaimed sports memoirs, "Pitino; My Story" and "E ...more

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	Stealth War: How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept 4.08 avg rating — 1,640 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The King of Pain: A Novel With Stories 3.53 avg rating — 351 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pitino: My Story by Rick Pitino, Seth Kaufman (Goodreads Author) (Primary Contributor) 3.80 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nuns with Guns 3.53 avg rating — 62 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eat My Schwartz: Our Story of NFL Football, Food, Family, and Faith by Geoff Schwartz, Mitch Schwartz (Goodreads Author), Seth Kaufman (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 44 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Metaphysical Graffiti: Rock's Most Mind-Bending Questions 3.30 avg rating — 30 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gizless Days of Thomas Binder 3.60 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Seductive Lady Vanessa of Manhattanshire 2.67 avg rating — 15 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If You Give an Architect a Contract by Seth Kaufman (Goodreads Author), Laura Lee Pedersen (Illustrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The War Against Boredom: Short Stores, Riffs, Insanities 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The New Yorker just put my piece, Super Bowl XLVIII Bets, up online. In the world of exotic bets that now exist thanks to online gambling, I’m pretty sure none of the categories in my piece have been handicapped in Vegas. At least I’m sure no one is offering a bet on the chance that Apple debuts a really cool commercial with a song you’ve actually heard before. I give that a 200 to 1 odds. You can

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“Walter, my first wife, Laila, used to throw around a quote. I don't know who said it first, but it went something like, 'If men menstruated, there would floating federal holidays for them.”
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“The one good thing about pain is that while you can remember it, you can't recreate it; you can't truly think it into recurring. You can rate it in retrospect—a toothache vs. banging your funny bone—but it doesn't work the way words or music do. You can hear things in your head, voices, music, over and over. You can close your eyes and visualize a place. But pain, the experience of it, either is or isn't. You are in pain, or you aren’t.”
― Seth Kaufman, The King of Pain: A Novel With Stories

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“I shake my head at this memory and am rewarded with the sensation that my lobes have somehow split apart and are now merrily banging against each other like a pair of castanets.”
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