August 2011 - Better Than Fiction

The Man in the Rockefeller Suit

August 29, 2011

Mark Seal

“The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed.” – paraphrased from Joseph Goebbels

There is something simply unbelievable in the stories of serial imposters like Frank Abaganle and “Clark Rockefeller”. How, you ask yourself, could so many people possibly believe such twaddle? And yet they do. …

Adventure, History, Travel

Travels in Siberia

August 1, 2011

Ian Frazier

Frazier’s dense and fascinating look at Siberia from seven trips over two decades makes a nowhere place into somewhere. Most often associated with gulag camps and cold, Siberia is as as vast and varied hunk of land as the US. Starting with his early fascination with the country, …