Illustration: Iris Legendre Sam Bankman-Fried is incarcerated at a federal prison in Lompoc, California, which sits northwest of Santa Barbara and is dubbed “the City of Arts and Flowers.” Once or twice a week, he calls me, and we talk for the allotted 15 minutes, at which point the line abruptly goes dead. “Hey!” he’ll say brightly when I pick up the phone, a note of forced cheer in his voice that belies his current station in life, as well as what he calls his anhedonia, which is the