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Michael Lewis

Author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short and The Undoing Project, and host of the podcast Against the Rules.

5 books on the record · 14 May 2020 – 14 May 2020

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

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A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

The other book, my pandemic reading gift I’ve been giving to people, because it’s a perfect pandemic novel, is Amor Towles’ A Gentleman in Moscow

on a podcast · 14 May 2020 · Report

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My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

There are memoirs that I’ve given more than once to people. Clive James’ Unreliable Memoirs. Gerald Durrell’s My Family and Other Animals, essentially comic memoirs.

on a podcast · 14 May 2020 · Report

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The Innocent Anthropologist by Nigel Barley

There’s a book, I’ve never seen anybody talk about it or write about it, but when I read it, I thought, in a funny way, it was helpful for Liar’s Poker. It was a book called The Innocent Anthropologist.

on a podcast · 14 May 2020 · Report

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The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson

it’s one of these books that, it’s just a miracle of a book. It’s called The Long Ships, and it’s by a Scandinavian historian.

on a podcast · 14 May 2020 · Report

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Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James

There are memoirs that I’ve given more than once to people. Clive James’ Unreliable Memoirs. Gerald Durrell’s My Family and Other Animals, essentially comic memoirs.

on a podcast · 14 May 2020 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.