David Spiro

Author Archive

  • September 12, 2012
    From the Casual Encounters listings on Craigslist: “My wife is out of town. I don’t want to cheat on her outright, but I would love to find someone to play around with....
  • September 6, 2012
    When terrorists flew airplanes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 9/11, they scared a lot of Americans, and they made us feel existentially less secure.
  • May 24, 2012
    Second Person Singular is the third novel by Sayed Kashua, an Arab living in Jerusalem who writes in Hebrew. The book is a parable about identity: how it is imposed on us, how we...
  • April 21, 2012
    Ever wondered how a confidence game is pulled off? The Mark Inside details the stages of how a con is perpetrated. This story of a mark who enacts revenge makes for an entertaining...
  • March 12, 2012
    What would you do if you had all the money in the world? Most of us are acquainted with this question, but few of us have considered it very seriously. In All the Money in the...
  • March 6, 2012
    Why does George Soros write books? He is one of the best known managers of unregulated offshore fundsâ??also referred to as hedge funds. A holocaust survivor, Dr. Soros (honorary...
  • February 28, 2012
    It seems we are moving toward a world without money. Everyone agrees that it is happening, but what exactly does it mean for money to come to an end?