Michael Lewis and Tana French on Their Latest Books

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.0 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Lewis talks about "The Fifth Risk," and French discusses "The Witch Elm."

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0:00.0	Why should you care about the Department of Agriculture or the Department of Energy for
0:10.9	that matter?
0:11.9	Michael Lewis makes a strong case in his new book, and he'll be here to talk about it
0:16.2	the fifth risk.
0:18.2	What happens when Tana French leaves the Dublin murder squad behind?
0:22.1	She'll join us from Dublin to talk about her new novel, The Witch Elm.
0:26.0	Alexander Altair will give us an update from the literary world.
0:28.8	Plus, our critics' Dwight Garner, Parle Sagle, and Jen Salai will join us to talk about
0:33.4	the latest in literary criticism.
0:35.7	This is the Booker V podcast from The New York Times.
0:38.2	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:49.2	Michael Lewis joins us now to talk about his new book, The Fifth Risk.
0:52.6	Michael, thanks for being here.
0:53.6	Thanks for having me.
0:54.6	So you've covered very exciting topics before Wall Street is exciting.
0:59.5	Sports is exciting.
1:01.7	The Department of Agriculture is not generally considered exciting.
1:05.3	How did you decide to turn to this?
1:07.5	So, it wouldn't have been exciting before Trump.
1:09.8	I think Trump's electrified all the material.
1:11.8	So what happened?
1:13.7	Several things that once happened.
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