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Category Archives: Neil Strauss
Neil Strauss and the Literature of Self-Construction
Neil Darrow Strauss (b. 1969) is an American journalist, memoirist, and ghostwriter whose career traces the migration of literary nonfiction from institutional gatekeeping toward personality-driven narrative production. Born in Chicago and educated at Vassar College, he entered the music press … Continue reading
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Neil Strauss & Monogamy
In the conventional MSM narrative about Neil Strauss’s new book, the former pick-up artist embraces monogamy. But that is not true. Neil’s new book does not say he’s embracing monogamy. It says he’s embracing integrity. If he or his wife … Continue reading
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The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships
As I open and start reading the new Neil Strauss book, I notice a lot of pages about Ingrid, his wife. A warning signal goes off in my head. Love made public rarely goes well for long. I fear he’s … Continue reading
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Slate: A Conversation With Neil Strauss: “I look back on The Game and cringe.”
By Christina Cauterucci: Critics of The Game have waited a decade for Neil Strauss to issue a mea culpa. Plenty of readers saw his 2005 embedded investigation of the pickup-artist industry as an instruction manual on how to cajole beautiful … Continue reading
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Grantland: ‘Game’ Met Match: Pick-up Artist Godhead Neil Strauss’s Subtle, Surprising New Book
Steve Sailer wrote in 2009: The most heartfelt articles by female journalists tend to be demands that social values be overturned in order that, Come the Revolution, the journalist herself will be considered hotter-looking. Technically, it might seem highly possible … Continue reading
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The Game At Ten
The best way to understand the interviewer (Kathy Gilsinan) is to see her picture: From The Atlantic: Strauss: That’s exactly it. And I’ll go one deeper. To me, the biggest shock of my life, was how, myself who wrote The … Continue reading
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Analyzing Neil Strauss
From The Rawness: When I was doing Part 4 to this series, I did a lot of research on the internet and in the book The Game to try to make a psychological profile. One thing I found interesting though … Continue reading
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Reddit RedPill: Summary Neil Strauss
Link: Neil Strauss, author of “The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists” has decided that he needs to absolve himself of the “sins” he committed against womankind by conducting an interview with The Guardian and advertising his Beta … Continue reading
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Neil Strauss Trades the Game for the Truth
Joshua Rotter writes: The now-happily married father of one is only too eager to share his discoveries about life and love in his new book, The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships, which he’s promoting at a Litquake brunch on … Continue reading
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Neil Strauss Is Back
From Slate: Reviews of The Game were haughty and dismissive, pointing out how inane PUAs’ routines are, accusing them of puerility and alienation, and noting, accurately, that these Lotharios seem far more wrapped up in one another and their “community” … Continue reading
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