New at Reason: Nick Gillespie on why former reason staffer Sam MacDonald is the biggest loser in American letters.

December 9, 2008

University of Pittsburgh creative writer Sam MacDonald used to work for reason. And he used to weigh over 300 pounds. In his entertaining new memoir, The Urban Hermit, MacDonald has penned a tale that punches directly at the soft underbelly of an overspent and overweight America about to go on its own extended austerity program.

In a piece originally written for The New York Post, Nick Gillespie takes the measure of this slacker update to Ben Franklin's Autobiography.

Read all about it here (and click through to see the "after photo").