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Anna Sorokin, a.k.a. Anna Delvey, spent a lot of time writing while she served her nearly four-year sentence for grand larceny. Now that she is out of jail but under house arrest, she is working to edit her many drafts, diaries, and notes into a book. She explained this to Chioma Nnadi and me when we visited her new home—a one-bedroom East Village rental that she is only allowed to leave once a week, to visit her parole officer—on the latest episode of The Run Through.
In addition to a print subscription to the Wall Street Journal and various international editions of Vogue, Delvey displayed twin stacks of books on the floor in lieu of a bookshelf. She’s an eager reader, though she says it was easier to find time for books in prison, where she could better “manage and control my distractions.”
Many of the books were gifts, Delvey notes, including Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino’s book of essays in which Delvey is mentioned. She’s currently reading Dinners with Ruth by Nina Totenberg, about the NPR correspondent’s friendship with the Notorious R.B.G., and Any Given Tuesday, Lis Smith’s political memoir.
Other selections offer a crash course in money, power, and shapeshifting, from biographies of major men such as Rupert Murdoch, Steve Jobs, and Elon Musk; to volumes on poker and chess strategy; and several books by Michael Lewis. (“I like Michael Lewis. I’m so jealous, he is writing about SBF.”)
And that’s not to mention eerily on-the-nose titles such as Jane Mayer’s Dark Money and James B. Stewart’s insider trading thriller Den of Thieves. “I find financial crime interesting because it’s a reflection of the legal system, oftentimes. It’s just, like, what kind of rules are being enforced,” Delvey explains. “I feel like it’s interesting for me to read, having been in the system myself. I was never really into any violent crime stories. It just kind of like bores me.”
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