Michael Lewis on Baltimore Ravens Tackle Michael Oher
Oher was the subject of Michael Lewis’s 2006 book-turned-movie The Blind Side.
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WATCH: “You’re such a wuss if you think that” - Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball and Liar’s Poker tells Robert Wolf on Reuters TV about people who think Barack Obama was too tough on Wall Street
At 1:10, he also says the typical CEO would suck as President of the United States and goes on to explains why.
“What I noticed is that that office takes your personality and exaggerates it — you become a caricature of who you are. And he has a personality trait that costs him politically, and it’s the personality trait of a writer. He really is at bottom a writer, and the trait is — he’s in a moment and not in a moment at the same time. He can be in a room but detach himself at the same time. It’s almost as if he’s writing about it at the same time he’s participating in it. It’s a curious inside-outside thing, and the charge that he’s aloof grows right out of this trait.
Michael Lewis’s latest book, Boomerang, is now available in paperback. We got Michael Lewis to take a break from hoops with POTUS long enough to write a new afterword for the book.
BOOKD the video series from THNKR—they like capital letters—investigates a new book every two weeks. The latest book they’ve BOOKD? The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis.
#OWS: Michael Lewis interviews Michael Lewis // The Daily Beast
Nick Hornby on ‘Moneyball’
“I understood about one word in every four of Moneyball, and it’s still the best and most engrossing sports book I’ve read in years. If you know anything about baseball, you will enjoy it four times as much as I did, which means that you might explode.”
—From The Polysyllabic Spree (Believer Books, 2004)
“I’m like the valley girl. And I’m like Michael Lewis.”
An in-depth interview with Michael Lewis from his “writing crib/man cave.” Skip ahead to 9:20 for the walking tour and a sneak peak at his works-in-progress.
“He’s like the Jon Stewart of print: Loose, but drum tight. Funny, but dead serious.”
Joseph Stiglitz, Paul Krugman, and Michael Lewis Comment on #OWS
Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel prize-winning economist:
“You are right to be indignant. This system is not working right. It is not right that we have so many people without jobs when we have so many needs that we have to fill. It is not right that we are throwing people out of their houses when we have so many homeless people.”
[watch the Zuccotti Park speech on YouTube]
Paul Krugman, Nobel prize-winning economist:
“The protesters’ indictment of Wall Street as a destructive force, economically and politically, is completely right.”
[read the New York Times op-ed]
Michael Lewis, best-selling author of The Big Short, Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, and most recently Boomerang:
“I think it could be a big deal…The reason I think it might have legs is that I think they have a point. There is a horrible unfairness at the heart of our economy right now. We have essentially socialism for capitalists and capitalism for everybody else.”
[watch the Reuters interview on YouTube]
