Colson Whitehead, 'The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death'
(Doubleday, May 6) That title says "take my money" louder than a Strip casino. Whitehead's bibliography has been hit and miss since his fantastic debut, The Intuitionist, yet even those misses are rewarding and rich with splendid sentences (take his last one, the zombie exercise Zone One). His latest is nonfiction, spun out of a Grantland assignment that sent the writer to a high-stakes tournament table with little training in the most American of card games. I hope it comes with a deck and some Jack Links.