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Gideon Lewis-Kraus


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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, a staff writer at The New Yorker, grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Stanford. He writes reportage and criticism and is the author of the digressive travel memoir A Sense of Direction as well as the Kindle Single No Exit. Previously, he was a writer-at-large at the New York Times Magazine, a contributing editor at Harper's magazine, and a contributing writer at WIRED magazine. Gideon co-edited, with Arnie Eisen, Philip Rieff's Sacred Order/Social Order III, and edited Richard Rorty's Philosophy as Cultural Politics. He teaches a reporting seminar in the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia. He has lived in San Francisco, Berlin (where he was a 2007–8 Fulbright Fellow), and Shanghai, and now lives in Brooklyn with h ...more

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A Sense of Direction: Pilgr...

3.40 avg rating — 777 ratings — published 2012 — 17 editions
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No Exit: Struggling to Surv...

3.77 avg rating — 243 ratings — published 2014
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City of Rumor

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The Jew of Culture: Freud, ...

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Omer Fast: In Memory

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“an MIT AI PhD can generally walk alone into an investor meeting wearing a coconut-shell bra, perform a series of improvised birdcalls, and walk out with $1 million.”
Gideon Lewis-Kraus, No Exit: Struggling to Survive a Modern Gold Rush

“Starting a company has become the way for ambitious young people to do something that seems simultaneously careerist and heroic.”
Gideon Lewis-Kraus, No Exit: Struggling to Survive a Modern Gold Rush

“As rivers flow into the sea and so lose name and form, attains the Supreme Being, the Self-Luminous, the Infinite.”
Gideon Lewis-Kraus, A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful



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