Shameless Self-Promotion
It's no April Fools trick: I have co-co-co-authored a book, The Modern Con Man: How To Get Something For Nothing, which is out today through Bloomsbury USA. It's filled with funny bets and pranks to pull on friends, enemies, lovers, coworkers, and total strangers, along with plenty of snarky commentary, flimflam history, and some blank pages just to thicken it up a bit. The perfect gift for the poker-playing former-frat-boy in your life!
Labels: con men, new books, shameless self-promotion
posted by Jack Silbert at
10:29 AM
4 Comments:
Hey, congratulations! Looks like a lot of fun. I've got some massive book at home that this reminds me of - some British book published in the last few years called something reminiscent of "The Encyclopedia of Cons" though the title is actually NOTHING like that title.
You a Ricky Jay fan?
Thanks Robert! Those Brit books have too many extraneous U's for my taste.
I am a fan of Mr. Jay (and also of Dr. J), but I must admit to knowing him more through Mamet movies than his actual work. Was happy to see him turn up in The Prestige.
Jack, we support shameless self-promotion.
Congrats Jack. I actually worked on a TV show called Con. The star was a self proclaimed con man, but in point of fact, the cons didn't impress audiences enough to warrant more than six episodes. One con that he did was to retrieve a receipt for a hamburger out of the garbage at McDonald's, sifting through until he had found one with the item he wanted to get. Then he would call the store and say that he'd ordered the burger with no onions, but that it had onions. The store would offer him a free burger, and voila! Con! Of course, all that work just to save 85ยข on a crappy burger didn't really balance out at the end of the day.
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