Does it Take a Twisted Mind to Write Twisted Stories? from Better In Person

How to Be a Better Human by TED

Sep 7, 202643:39Education

Harlan Coben doesn’t think so. The mega-best-selling author talks suburbia, impostor syndrome, and what he learned from his college friend David Foster Wallace. If you'd like to see the video version of Better in Person,...

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