Sam Leith is a former Literary
Editor of the Daily Telegraph, and contributes regularly to the Evening
Standard, Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Spectator and Prospect. He’s the
author of two nonfiction books: Dead Pets
and Sod’s Law and a novel, 'The Coincidence Engine'. His latest work
is 'You Talkin’ To Me?: Rhetoric from
Aristotle to Obama' (Profile, 2011)