There's a fine line between enjoying Francis Underwood, Kevin Spacey's pathologically Machiavellian politician on the Netflix series House of Cards, and wanting to be Francis Underwood—and it's one an increasing number of us seem eager to cross. How else to explain the growing pile of aspirational pop-psycho lit? This month, M.E. Thomas, the pseudonymous blogger behind SociopathWorld.com, releases Confessions of a Sociopath, a memoir about living without fear, empathy, and conscience. It follows last fall's The Wisdom of Psychopaths, University of Oxford psychologist Kevin Dutton's pseudo-self-help manual on how psychopathy can help you get ahead, which proffered: "Psychopaths…have a variety
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