VISION BY THE SQUARE FOOT
Protégé of the swashbuckling mogul Harry Macklowe, Kent Swig was a West Coast guy angling to succeed in the rough world of New York real estate. But Swig saw things others didn’t.
Adam Piore is an award-winning journalist based in New York. A former editor and correspondent for Newsweek, his narrative features have appeared in Conde Nast Traveler, GQ, Discover, Mother Jones,Playboy, Scientific American, The Atavist, Business Week, and many other publications. He has been writing for The Real Deal for over a decade, chronicling the lives and deals of some of the industry’s most important figures. The New Kings of New York is his second book.
Excerpt
One of the most fascinating frontiers in the world of bio-engineering is research in memory enhancement. And it starts with fruit flies.
Uprising
What made an accountant from California try to overthrow the Cambodian government with grenades and anti-tank weapons? Former Newsweek editor Adam Piore tells the story of Yasith Chhun in 'The Accidental Terorist,' a new ebook single from The Atavist.