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6 unusual facts about Neil Strauss


Pickup artist

However, the claims of Pick Up Artists are not made in peer-reviewed psychological or social science journals, and central figures in the community such as Mystery and Neil Strauss have no formal training in psychology or the methodologies of the social sciences.

The pickup artist has also been parodied, as in the March 2011 The Scott Mills Show, and BBC Radio 1 debated Neil Strauss' The Game in many shows.

More recently was the publication of Neil Strauss's book, The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, and in 2007, the reality television series, The Pickup Artist, shown on VH1, starring pickup artist Mystery (Erik von Markovik) .

Rumi Shishido

Neil Strauss of The New York Times compared her "ripe, melodic voice" from her first indies album, Set Me Free, to Debbie Gibson and Liz Phair.

The Miscellany News

Neil Strauss '91, American author and journalist, best known for his best-selling work The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

Visual kei

As far back as 1998, Neil Strauss reported that to visual kei bands "after X" makeup and outrageous looks became "more important than music".


How to Make Money Like a Porn Star

How to Make Money Like a Porn Star is the first graphic novel published by ReganBooks/HarperCollins, written by New York Times bestselling author Neil Strauss and illustrated by artist Bernard Chang.


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