Jessa Crispin

This is the golden age of the grifter – and there’s a podcast for every con

The best of these is Trickster, about a man who was so good at conning the world that every couple of years we entirely forget he was a liar

A man in Yaqui indigenous dress. Charlatan anthropologist Carlos Castaneda claimed to have the ear of a Yaqui shaman called 'Don Juan'. Image: © Sacramento Bee / zumapress.com
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