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The Big Short. That's the film the director Adam McKay made based on the Michael Lewis book of the same name.

It's about a group of investors, including Steve Eisman.

There's Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

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Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short and Moneyball.

Authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short and Moneyball.

authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short and Moneyball.

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Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

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Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's fund managers like Peter Lynch, Bill Miller, Ray Dalio. Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's fund managers like Dick Thaler or Bob Schiller. Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short and Moneyball.

There's Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

authors michael lewis author of the big short and money ball

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short and Moneyball.

Authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short and Moneyball.

authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Show. Short and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

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Sometimes it's fund managers like Peter Lynch, Bill Miller, Ray Dalio. Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's fund managers like Dick Thaler or Bob Schiller. Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short and Moneyball.

Sometimes it's authors, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short and Moneyball.

over 30 years after death threats over his novel, The Satanic Verses.

He was stabbed multiple times in an attack that came more than 30 years after death threats over his novel, The Satanic Verses.

in your last book, Knife, you write about the lifechanging injuries that you've sustained.

Flaubert used to come down from his with these books Knife and the 11th hour.

In your last book, Knife, you write about the lifechanging injuries that you've sustained.

I think Richard Powers did a really great job in the over story.

Richard Powers did a really great job in the over story.

these are Tony Morrison's Beloved or Huckleberry Finn or To Kill a Mockingbird.

These are Tony Morrison's Beloved or Huckleberry Finn or To Kill a Mockingbird, some of the best books ever written.

I hadn't read a single Ian Fleming novel. I had read LeCarr. I now put Mick Herron right up there in the Pantheon alongside LeCarr. I think he's a brilliant writer. The Slow Horses books, yeah.

When you went into the service, you will have read John leCarr and presumably Ian Fleming, you know, all of that kind of - the classic things people know.

I hadn't read a single Ian Fleming novel. I had read LeCarr. I now put Mick Herron right up there in the Pantheon alongside LeCarr. The Slow Horses books, yeah.

Because in your book, The Coming Wave, and in a piece you wrote about the same time for Foreign Affairs, you were quite clear on how much governance was needed.

In your book, The Coming Wave, and in a piece you wrote about the same time for Foreign Affairs, you were quite clear on how much governance was needed. In fact, you said like you wanted three different kinds of governance regimes modelled on climate change and financial stability and arms control.

when I started writing what became Midnight's Children, I was really thinking, I just want to write a novel about childhood.

When Midnight's Children came out, it was very well received.

When I started writing what became Midnight's Children, I was really thinking, I just want to write a novel about childhood... It took me like over five years to write, because in a way, I was learning how to write it while I was writing it.

I ended landing on Alice in Wonderland. No time to say hello. Goodbye. I'm late. I'm late. Because that is a place where nothing makes sense.

When Alice goes into Wonderland, she follows the rabbit and is in this strange world. Her perspective is always getting thrown off. How very curious. She's big. She's little.

What I ended up landing on was Alice in Wonderland. No time to say hello. Goodbye. I'm late. I'm late. I'm late.

When Alice goes into Wonderland, she follows the rabbit and is in this strange world. Her perspective is always getting thrown off. How very curious. She's big. She's little.

It's the thing about the Alice in Wonderland economy. Consumer sentiment is terrible. It's like near the lowest levels it's been in decades.

And in her new book, Motherland, she is telling the story of Russia through its women.

Is Motherland part of a response to being asked so much about one man, Putin? God, yeah. Absolutely. And what he wants. Yeah. I'm just so sick of talking about him.

I just, on one hand, wanted to write a book where he was a bit player. And this was one of the reasons I wrote the book.

Motherland is, she says, partly a response to Putin, through her desire to show that Russia is much more than one person, let alone one man.

Julia Yoffe, political journalist, interpreter of Russia and now author of an epic book on the women of Russia.

And in her new book, Motherland, she is telling the story of Russia through its women.

Is Motherland part of a response to being asked so much about one man, Putin? God, yeah. Absolutely.

I just, on one hand, wanted to write a book where he was a bit player.

This week, George has a new novel out titled Vigil.

In a nutshell, we find ourselves at the bedside of somebody who I imagine to be kind of a 1998 to 2000 era oil executive. The last night of his life, the last hours of his life.

The first half of my interview focuses largely on visual. And in the second half, we broaden the conversation, hearing George's takes on AI, why literature matters, and even get to talk about games to get writing as a beginner.

This week, George has a new novel out titled Vigil.

I was looking at this book, Imaginary homelands, which is your criticism and essays written through the 1980s and first published in 1991.

I was looking at this book, Imaginary homelands, which is your criticism and essays written through the 1980s and first published in 1991.

there's a, in my novel Quichotte, one of the major characters has a backstory in the same neighbourhood.

There's a, in my novel Quichotte, one of the major characters has a backstory in the same neighbourhood.

Remember he wrote the book, Hillbilly, L.A.J. about his drug-addicted mother and being raised by the single grandmother was really kind of striking how much he was pushing The Midwestern background over his time as a California venture capitalist.

It could be books, newspapers, plywood. Pretty much anything you might touch on a given day.

That is, buyers of all that coffee, chocolate, lipstick, books and car tires.

there was a paper that came out that showed that people were, you know, they were forgetting more things or something because they were using chat GPT. But, you know, in Phaedrus, Plato was worried that people were going to forget things because they started writing things down.

These are Tony Morrison's Beloved or Huckleberry Finn or To Kill a Mockingbird, some of the best books ever written.

Revolution was also the title of Macron's memoir and in that book and on the campaign trail Macron made the case for big structural reforms for France.

Is it fair to say it's kind of like the Harry Potter of South Korea?

I'm reluctant to call it the Harry Potter of South Korea because a show about people basically in this competition where they all die just doesn't lend itself naturally, you'd think, to franchises or to exploitation.

Harry Potter has been a cultural touchstone now for 25 years, and it's going to continue to be for the next 25, 50, 75 years.

My kids are going to be reading them.