Michael Lewis, author and Bloomberg View columnist, talks about the privileged access he was granted to U.S. President Barack Obama for a Vanity Fair profile. Lewis spent six months with the president, from White House meetings to the basketball court, to pen the article. You can read it here.
Lewis, speaking yesterday as part of the PEN@Bloomberg series, also discusses his strategy as an author and the outlook for the overhaul of the U.S. financial system. Here is a direct link.
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I am much more interested in finding out what Michael Lewis got paid for the article. Six month’s and that is the sum of the insight.
Oh…. that was a Vanity Fair piece after all wasn’t it.
Gotta make hay while you can anyway you can with that 15 minutes of fame.
Today’s Sesame Street word is “hagiography.”