well, look who it is. what a surprise! as if! i can t believe i found you here! it s been so long. can ijust say, i m standing here feeling kind ofjealous? why? well, look! and we didn t even put it there! it wasn t even staged. no? no. well, i mean, it s selling very well, so why not? and the cover looks good. i think the cover kind of pops. i m wondering if you get a bit. you know, i ve had it one or two times, books in windows, but you must get it all the time. so, the thing that makes my socks go up and down is not seeing the book in the book store window, but it s walking down the aisle of an aeroplane and seeing people read the book. when you see people reading it. i ve sat next to somebody once who was reading my book and i didn t say anything. so, i had exactly that experience. after liar s poker came out, i was. it was a version of this i sat down to reread my book because i was coming back for the paperback book tour from england and the guy next to me goes. he lo
from england and the guy next to me goes. he looks at the book and he says, i read that book. and i said, oh. and before i could stop him, he says, cynical both laugh we spent. it was a seven hour flight. seven hours, and he s playing 20 questions, trying to figure out who i was, and he was getting closer and closer and closer. and it was just horrendous! did you manage. by the time you landed, he didn t figure it out? no, he hadn t figured it out. shall we go on in? i mean, i used to live in washington, so. i know. it s lovely. this is my favourite book shop in dc. well, i can see why. so, this is interesting because your books were all over the store. you got to just make sure people don t miss that one. it is the author s instinct, isn t it? it is. actually, it s. .. but it s put in the right position. put it over someone else s. yes. katty laughs i shouldn t do that. here. no, i think it shows up enough. you write about such an eclectic group of subjects, but you wr
it was a version of this i sat down to reread my book because i was coming back for the paperback book tour from england and the guy next to me goes. he looks at the book and he says, i read that book. and i said, oh. and before i could stop him, he says, cynical both laugh we spent. it was a seven hour flight. seven hours, and he s playing 20 questions, trying to figure out who i was, and he was getting closer and closer and closer. and it was just horrendous! did you manage to make the whole flight? by the time you landed, he didn t figure it out? no, he hadn t figured it out. shall we go on in? i mean, i used to live in washington, so. i know. it s lovely. this is my favourite book shop in dc. well, i can see why. so, this is interesting because your books were all over the store. you got to just make sure people don t miss that one. it is the author s instinct, isn t it? it is. actually, it s. .. but it s put in the right position. put it over someone else s. yes.
mm hm. and i was wondering whether the. you write about this guy who s brilliant, creates this crypto exchange. it s quite a dense subject. he is very nerdy, and you spend a lot of time interviewing him, and then it all sort of spectacularly gets derailed. and i was wondering, did your narrative process, to the extent that while you were interviewing him, you had a plan for what you were going to write, did that get derailed, too, by what happened to sam? we got railed more than derailed. really, because i had. iwent in. i go, usually, into these things kind of groping. i found some character who i find interesting and he s in some weird situation. and so you had this person who. child of academics, clearly kind of socially troubled like, he has trouble with other people. ..has become one of these instant billionaires, and notjust a billionaire, like, forbes had him at $22.5 billion and it took him 18 months to get it. then he was going to give it all away to save humanity. so, there
a lot of time interviewing him, and then it all sort of spectacularly gets derailed. and i was wondering, did your narrative process, to the extent that while you were interviewing him, you had a plan for what you were going to write, did that get derailed, too, by what happened to sam? we got railed more than derailed. really, because i had. iwent in. i go, usually, into these things kind of groping. i found some character who i find interesting and he s in some weird situation. and so you had this person who. child of academics, clearly kind of socially troubled like, he has trouble with other people. ..has become one of these instant billionaires, and notjust a billionaire, like, forbes had him at $22.5 billion and it took him 18 months to get it. then he was going to give it all away to save humanity. so, there s this odd backdrop. that led me in, and it wasjust like, what is the story here? and i spent. well, i met him in the fall,