Introducing Other People's Money: A Liar's Poker Companion
Against the Rules with Michael Lewis
Pushkin Industries
4.4 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2022
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
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 first time as an unabridged audiobook, read by the author. And to celebrate, Lewis has made a special mini-series about the book. Over the course of five weeks, he'll revisit people he worked with, explore how he found his voice as a writer, and ask why Wall Street firms still assign the book to their interns today.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey there against the rules listeners. |
| 0:12.0 | We'll be back with a new season in April. |
| 0:15.0 | Until then, here's a preview of a special project that we've been working on. |
| 0:21.0 | I was 27 years old when I wrote my first book. |
| 0:24.0 | It was called Liars Poker. |
| 0:27.0 | His friends thought he was crazy when he quit in 1987 to write a book they were wrong. |
| 0:32.0 | The book Liars Poker hit the New York Times bestseller list and Michael Lewis never went back to work on Wall Street. |
| 0:37.0 | Now he just writes about it. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm Michael Lewis and it's true. |
| 0:41.0 | I never went back to Wall Street except of course to write about its ups and downs. |
| 0:45.0 | I also actually never reread Liars Poker until now. |
| 0:49.0 | But now I'm releasing it for the first time as an unabridged audiobook with Pushkin Industries. |
| 0:55.0 | Here's how it starts. |
| 0:58.0 | I was a bond salesman on Wall Street and in London. |
| 1:07.0 | Working beside the traders at Solomon Brothers put me I believe at the epicever of one of those events that helped to define an age. |
| 1:16.0 | Traders are masters of the quick killing and a lot of the killings in the past 10 years or so have been quick. |
| 1:22.0 | And Solomon Brothers was indisputably the King of Traders. |
| 1:32.0 | While we were in the studio making the audiobook I kept interrupting myself. |
| 1:36.0 | Sometimes I was annoyed with my younger self as a writer but also I had so many questions. |
| 1:42.0 | Questions about what had happened to the people I wrote about for example. |
| 1:45.0 | And why did Wall Street keep getting more crazy? |
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