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The psychopath test
by Jon Ronson 
Journalist Jon Ronson is contacted by a leading neurologist and asked to help solve a puzzle. In the process of investigating this mystery, he meets a renowned psychologist, developer of the industry standard checklist created to help identify psychopaths, and who believes that many prominent CEOs and politicians are in fact psychopaths.
Bossypants
Bossypants is not so much a memoir of her life but more the story of how Tina Fey came to be a well-known actor/comedian/writer. Fey tells how she started out in acting by participating in “Summer showtime” – a kind of drama/improv training camp - during her school holidays. This lead to an opportunity to join the ‘Saturday Night Live” crew, first as an actor then as a writer. Then there came “30 Rock” followed by the Sarah Palin impersonation, which went viral on the internet..
