Dan Slater

Father, husband, author of true stories: Wolf Boys | The Officer & The Entrepreneur. The Incorruptibles coming July 16, 2024, from Little, Brown & Co.

[Dan Slater @bydanslater]

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Happy 4th!

What I Learned From Authors Who Treat Trash & Cannibals https://t.co/CTEteVEHvC

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This week's Nonfiction Nut newsletter looks at a powerful new memoir from Elizabeth Pryor, about her relationship with her dad & the path she traveled to overcome her past.

https://t.co/uIEjlzVLXv

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Real Horse Heads & Live Births: A New Book Gets the Wild Side of Filmmaking's Golden Age

https://t.co/ntjCS4JmNS

[Carlos Barragán @CarlosBarraganT]

Today my first book, THE YAHOO BOYS: Love, Deception and the Real Lives of Nigeria’s Romance Scammers (FSG), is finally out in the US.

The book follows four love scammers in Lagos as they scam lonely Westerners while dealing with the worst economic crisis in Nigeria in a generation.

It started with my mum falling for an American soldier who was, in fact, a Nigerian scammer. But it grew into something much bigger.

I’ve spent the last four years of my life working on this: travelling to and living in Lagos, reporting, taking notes, reading, writing and rewriting. I did more than 250 interviews and spent countless hours with the main characters of this book. I poured tens of thousands of euros into the project, to the point where I was dead broke by the end.

I’ve seen the best and the worst of human beings. I’ve laughed and cried and eaten so much jollof and egusi. I’ve had a gun pointed at me in Kentucky. I’ve read conversations with too many people talking about taking their own lives because they were lonely. I’ve met Nigerian families who split an egg four ways for dinner. Many interviewees broke into tears in front of me.

I’ve learnt that being a human being is a difficult business.

I hope you buy and read the book, so you can experience some of this for yourself.

[Dan Slater @bydanslater]

@CarlosBarraganT Congrats!

[Dan Slater @bydanslater]

For my Friday newsletter, Carlos Barragán talked to me about his reporting in Lagos for his incredible new book, Yahoo Boys, out next wk from FSG.

How a Young Spanish Reporter Wrote One of the Best Books of the Year (in his 2nd language) https://t.co/qJb1xHVk0Q

[Jewish Book Council @JewishBook]

Join @bydanslater & Tova Mirvis on Mar 31 @ 7pm ET for a con­ver­sa­tion exam­in­ing por­tray­als of crime and crim­i­nals in Amer­i­ca. Mod­er­at­ed by Stephanie Butnick. Grab your free ticket! https://t.co/2vxfRlNvAl @TheJewishMuseum & GOL­DA, your Jew­ish Lifestyle Guide

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Dysfunctional families expect people to dissociate from reality to function.

The person who speaks up becomes the scapegoat.

Read this if you’re the scapegoat:

[Dan Slater @bydanslater]

@_lrhughes Hi Lucas, thanks for getting The Incorruptibles. Hope it makes good company during the holidays.

[Nate Postlethwait @nate_postlethwt]

Feeling behind in an area of your life because you had to focus on survival and/or healing is not something to be ashamed of. It’s something to be proud of. That was wise. It was a sacrifice. I hope you feel bold in the ways you take up space exactly as you are.

[Dan Slater @bydanslater]

@Sulli864 Enjoy, and lmk what you think of the notes.

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Depression runs through a generation when the focus is achievement and status over self awareness and sustainable relationships.

[Ryan Daigler - Exposing Narcissistic Abuse 🚩🚩 @Ryan_Daigler]

The malignant #narcissist parent will regularly instigate fights with the scapegoat child—sometimes daily or several times a week, and this can go on for years. While doing this, they insinuate to the rest of the family that it is the scapegoat who is causing all the conflicts. These actions are premeditated and intentional, designed to pit the family against the scapegoat. Why? The narcissist feels deeply threatened by the scapegoat child's honesty, genuineness, and inner qualities—qualities the narcissist envies but cannot possess.

To satisfy their fragile and deranged ego, the narcissist seeks to destroy the scapegoat by making them the target of the family's frustrations and problems. This strategy diverts attention away from the narcissist's own personality disorder and helps them maintain their illusion of dominance and control. At its core, this behavior reflects obscenely low emotional maturity and, in many cases, a form of sadism, where the narcissist derives pleasure from the scapegoat's suffering.

[Amy | Wellness Alchemist @amydoublet]

🧵1/ Understanding the Fawn Response: The Silent Struggle to Please.

Most people know about the fight, flight, and freeze responses.
But have you heard of the fawn response?
👇🏼

[Smead Capital Management @SmeadCap]

The latest episode of A Book With Legs is here!

@bydanslater joins @cole_smead to discuss his book, "The Incorruptibles", which explores how Jewish immigrant communities played a significant role in shaping early organized crime and law enforcement efforts in the 20th century.

[Civics & Coffee ☕️ @CivicsPod]

Coming to you this weekend - another new episode!

Be sure to tune in Saturday when I welcome @bydanslater to the show to discuss his latest book.

[Dan Slater @bydanslater]

“The Incorruptibles is a true story that reads like a sweeping historical novel filled with dynamic personalities and surprising details.”

Check out Love Erik Larson? Pick Up These Riveting Nonfiction Books by Jeff Somers https://t.co/tF0sbS5vG8 via @BookBub

[Dan Slater @bydanslater]

“The shocking tale is largely forgotten by American Jews today, even if it’s also part of the dramatic backstory behind legacy Jewish institutions...”

@JTAnews⁩ & ⁦@NYJewishWeek⁩ — thank you for this wonderful coverage of The Incorruptibles. 🤓 https://t.co/2pZpKYeXxG

[David Simon @AoDespair]

Whenever you tell yourself that there are depths to which these trash, these thugs, these lying, cynical shitheels who serve a grasping, grifting hollowed-out narcissist, will not plunge, you are immediately shown your own naïveté. They will do and say whatever the fuck gets them to what they want and where they want to go. Long-held political norms? Whatever. The dignity of any national space or symbol? Who cares? The law itself? Fuck it.

This is what is now certain: Donald Trump convinced the families of some of those buried in section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery to allow not only the graves of their loved ones -- but those of the section as a whole -- to be used as props for a political campaign. Not as a moment of sacred remembrance personal to the family but for a political ad. We know this because the photography has, in fact, been used as such. They were warned not to violate the statute that prohibits this advance. But the rules do not apply to Donald Trump

Understanding the law that prohibits such, a female cemetery employee attempted to interpose in the attempt to violate the law. She was verbally and physically attacked by the Trump crew. When this story began to break, Trump surrogates immediately attacked her "mental health." Consequently, she does not wish to file charges for fear of threats from Trump supporters.

The family of a veteran buried in section 60 has now come forward distressed that their loved one's grave has now been used as a prop in Trump's campaign materials -- the precise outcome that the statue violated here seeks to prevent. Trump surrogates continue to claim, ridiculously, that he was there merely to comfort the family and share a solemn, if entirely non-private moment, with them. Mr. Vance, notably, claimed that a camera just happened to be present at the time.

And while this controversy raises itself, where is Donald Trump? He's retweeting a photograph of Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton that makes a joke about -- wait for it -- blowjobs.

There is no gutter into which this man and those who surround him will not crawl for any possible gain or advantage. He shows us. Time after time after time.

[Dan Slater @bydanslater]

“Sharmuta” = prostitute

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

A Palestinian messes with an IDF female soldier. The coward soon finds out 👇