The novel is to a large extent about the fictions woven around great wealth in America.

And the main premise of these fictions is that of the self-made man, and I use the word

deliberately.

Hernández talks about his new novel Trust, which is told in four parts, each one changing

the reader's perception of all that has come before.

Louis Lepreince has just disappeared months before, and all of a sudden here's Thomas Edison

who's got a reputation as someone who's not entirely ethical, announcing what sounds

a lot like Louis Lepreince's invention.

Paul Fisher talks about the man who invented motion pictures, the story of a French inventor,

Thomas Edison, a true crime mystery, and a history of early movie technology.

Plus my colleagues, Greg Cole's, and Liz Egan will be here to tell me what they've been

reading.

This is the Book Review Podcast.

It's May 6th.

I'm John Williams.

Hernández is here.

His first novel in the distance was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2018.

That book reimagined or re-reimagined the American Western.

His new novel Trust is about New York City and the financial world in the 20th century,

and it unspools in quite a creative way.

Hernández, thanks for being here to talk about it.

Oh, thank you, John.

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