Other People’s Money: George Saunders on the Value of Failure
After the surprise success of Liar’s Poker, publishers urged Michael Lewis to try his hand at fiction. It was a bad idea. But even award-winning fiction authors have struggled with failure. Michael sp...
8 Mar 202228min
Other People’s Money: Ira Glass on Finding Your Voice
Michael Lewis did not rest long on his laurels after publishing Liar’s Poker. In the 1990s, he hit the presidential campaign trail, writing a series of magazine pieces. Some of his dispatches got adap...
1 Mar 202226min
Other People’s Money: Anne Clarke Wolff on the Wages of Sexism
Liar’s Poker is set on a Wall Street where women were the last hired and first fired — and that was probably the least of their worries. Is Wall Street today any better for women? Michael speaks with ...
22 Feb 202228min
Other People’s Money: Dash Riprock and the Human Piranha Revealed
Liar’s Poker describes many of the mentors Michael Lewis had at the investment bank Salomon Brothers. He chose to keep some of their identities secret, out of a well-founded fear that the book might c...
15 Feb 202229min
Other People’s Money: Jacob Goldstein and the Bonds of Wall Street
For the first time in more than 30 years, Michael Lewis has re-read Liar’s Poker. That experience brought up a lot of questions — especially, why is a book set in the pre-Internet Wall Street of the 1...
8 Feb 202242min
Introducing Other People's Money: A Liar's Poker Companion
Michael Lewis published his first book, Liar's Poker, in 1989. It’s about his time as a bond salesman on Wall Street — and it was a runaway best seller. Pushkin Industries is re-releasing it for the f...
26 Jan 20223min
Live Interview 5/19/21: Michael Lewis and Geraldine Brooks
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks interviews Michael Lewis about his new book “The Premonition: A Pandemic Story.” They also discuss how Michael started his writing career and why growi...
16 Jun 202147min
The Premonition
In this special bonus episode of Against the Rules, Michael Lewis reads a chapter from his new book about the pandemic, The Premonition —available now wherever books are sold. This episode includes th...
4 Mai 202134min
