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Mr Mezrich mans the conveyor belt at the factory that turns raw reality into its slick cinematic depiction

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(Book Cover) THE ANTISOCIAL NETWORK

Giri Nathan | NYT
THE ANTISOCIAL NETWORK: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
Author: Ben Mezrich
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing/HarperCollins
Price: Rs 499 
Pages: 288

These days every knotty news item humbles me. It can illuminate the breadth and depth of my ignorance — of some macroeconomic phenomenon, of some collective delusion among a large group of people, of some baffling technological endeavour. My response to such news is to shrink the footprint of my own opinions, sort out the credible from non-credible analysts bleating in my ear, and clam up. When the writer Ben Mezrich encounters