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Authors in August: The Lincoln Highway with Amor Towles

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🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Perhaps you've traveled from New York to San Francisco. Maybe you've even driven from coast to coast. But have you taken the Lincoln Highway? Today Amor Towles joins us to talk about the voices, the characters, and the adventures from his novel by that name. Also, we get a sneak peak at the soon-to-be-released TV series based on his previous book, A Gentleman in Moscow. Ewan McGregor, a cameo denied, and an exclusive easter egg, just for Fools!

Host: David Gardner
Guest: Amor Towles
Producer: Rick Engdahl

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0:00.0

So far this month our authors in August series for Rule Breaker Investing has introduced us to an author who walked from Washington, D.C. to New York City and wrote about it.

0:10.0

An entrepreneur who parlaid his skills learned as an Army Ranger into helping others sell their own businesses the right way to a mathematical genius that well I hope we talked enough about his book but it was too much fun to go off the rails with Jordan last week as well and now

0:28.8

This week we get to talk to and learn from a world-class novelist who last joined me on Rule Breaker investing five years ago.

0:37.0

Five years ago, this very week.

0:39.0

Amortol is quite a Rule Breaker himself, a man who stepped away from a Wall Street research desk in his mid-40s

0:46.7

to become a critically acclaimed novelist in 2011 published rules of civility in 2016, a gentleman in Moscow, and does this happen every five years in 2021?

0:59.4

It was the Lincoln Highway, the main subject of our podcast, this week. Let's learn from a man who's sold five

1:08.0

plus million books, shall we? Only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.

1:17.0

It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full co-founder David Gardner.

1:25.0

And welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.

1:28.6

It is Authors in August.

1:30.3

It is Amor Tolls.

1:31.6

You heard me at the top. I don't think I need to go too much more into this phenomenal writer.

1:38.0

Just delighted to be joined again by Amor five years ago to the very week that we talked about his previous novel,

1:44.1

a gentleman in Moscow.

1:45.1

Here we are about to talk about the Lincoln Highway.

1:48.4

Now, many have not yet read the Lincoln Highway.

1:51.6

It did come out in 2021. It's already been a

1:54.0

fantastic bestseller, but the vast majority of people hearing me today, which

1:58.5

would be true of almost any audience other than Amortol's Book Club.com, will not actually have read this book yet.

2:05.6

So just like last time, I'm not going to spoil his wonderful novel.

2:10.6

Well, up to a point.

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