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The Full Book (Table of Contents, Chapters 11-16)
Here is the second half of the table of contents for all of SMIRK.
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Christie Smythe
Epilogue: Life After Infamy
There is no fairy tale ending here – just moving on, a little older and wiser, while Martin Shkreli stays the same.
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Christie Smythe
14:50
Tips for Dealing with, or Dating, Martin Shkreli
Chapter 16, Part 3: Here are mistakes I made and lessons I learned, so you don’t have to repeat them.
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Christie Smythe
13:59
Chapter 16, Part 2: The Age of Man-Boys
Masculinity is having a moment. It’s a toxic, deranged, self-sabotaging moment – but it may be the right one for Martin Shkreli.
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Christie Smythe
10:28
Chapter 16, Part 1: Captain Marvel
I stopped watching superhero movies in 2019 because they rarely captured moral complexity. But then I saw “Captain Marvel.”
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Christie Smythe
10:01
Chapter 15, Part 5: Free Shkreli
The final stretch of Martin Shkreli’s stay in prison was almost as eventful as when he was first thrown in.
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Christie Smythe
9:57
Chapter 15, Part 4: "I Should Live in Salt"
The process of me going public, and becoming almost as vilified as Martin Shkreli was, forced me to do a lot of thinking about my choices.
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Christie Smythe
12:03
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A journalist falls in love with a "hated" man she covered — and finds herself.
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