"But in many observers’ telling, Friend had left these seekers no choice. They had to 'speak [their] truth,' they have said, on and offline, because Friend is 'like a thousand-headed Hindu painting,' 'a guy counting cards faster than you can imagine any human being able to count,' or a 'weird warlock perverted Dumbledore power whore.'" —The rise and fall of John Friend, the former king of anusara yoga.

The first thing you need to know about the Delaware River Tubing Company is that it’s located in the New Jersey borough of Frenchtown. It was so named for the tongue of its early settlers, many of whom followed the flight of a Swiss opponent of the French Revolution to the leafy lands along the lazy, shallow, deeply brown river that‘s a natural divider with Pennsylvania. The French appear to be largely gone, though at least one of the town’s residents is well known for spending some time in the Old World: Elizabeth Gilbert is right here in Frenchtown, where she is writing a novel, and the husband she snatched [...]