...a tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon the place the fantastic mental pictures he had in his head when he got there.

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Michael Lewis (2011). Lewis worked for Conde Nast Portfolio but in February 2009 left to join Vanity Fair where he became a contributing editor.

Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15 1960) is an American non-fiction author and financial journalist. His bestselling books include The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Liar's Poker The New New Thing Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game Panic Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood and Boomerang.