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600 of your 800 words. so a column you just have one idea, and you hammer that idea. i try to do my columns more narratively, try to tell a story, but it s really compressed. with a book you can spend a couple years on something, in-depth knowledge and do it in a more narrative forum, more natural thinking in terms of. and you can do a little better of capturing the climate of something with a column it s pretty much who s doing what, and it s very specific. but i think we re actually influenced by culture more than by personalities, more than by individuals. so you can try to capture a whole culture in a book. host: we want to focus on your columns later, but let s begin with your books and whether it s a book that you ve written or read, what makes it a good read? what are you looking for? guest: yeah, well, you want it to, at the grandest, you want it to change your life in some serious way. you want it to lodge in your head. and i m a big believer in books. i think bo

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