Ben Mezrich

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Arts & Entertainment

A Chess Cheating Scandal, Emma Stone, and My Next Book

It began, as it usually did, as an unsettling feeling in the pit of my stomach. Not painful, really, but vaguely unpleasant—as though something was […]

Home & Property

“Can We All Agree That Kale Only Belongs in a Wood-Chipper?”

A drag show on Boston Common? Well, sort of. In As You Like It, Rosalind spends most of the play dressed as a man, trying […]

City Life

Photos: Ben Mezrich’s “The Mistress and the Key” Release Party

Earlier this month, local author Ben Mezrich held the release party for his newest novel, The Mistress and the Key, at Monteverdi in Cambridge. The […]

Arts & Entertainment

Author Ben Mezrich Strikes Hollywood Gold (Again)

From 40 pages a day to six. Kids and life have understandably dialed back bestselling author Ben Mezrich’s daily writing habit, but his literary star […]

Arts & Entertainment

Ben Mezrich: Based on a True Story

Ben Mezrich digs up real-life tales that are almost too incredible to believe, then turns them into bestselling books—and that has transformed the one-time Harvard geek into the bigshot writer he always wanted to be.