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By late 2017, Berkeley had replaced Oxford as the financial capital of effective altruism. One reason for this was that Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife, Cari Tuna, signaled their intent to give away most of their multibillion-dollar fortune to effective altruist causes—but there were others. Oxford was still the movement’s intellec
... See moreMichael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
The more Sammy talked, the more cordial and personal he became. He was interested in the financial side of writing more than in writing itself. How much did this magazine pay, and how much did that one pay, and he was convinced that only by favoritism were stories sold. You had to have a cousin or a brother or somebody like that in an editor’s offi
... See moreJohn Fante • Ask the Dust
Prince and Dickens tell me, every day, Not good enough. Not quick enough. Not enough. More, more, more. Think quicker, be more ambitious, be more imaginative. And whatever you do for a living, that’s something you need to hear, every now and again. Were they happy? Probably not. Were they crazy? Probably. That too is beyond the scope of this book.
... See moreNick Hornby • Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius
These men all moved to California recently, driven by a lust for space that can’t be satisfied by old cities with their tinge of Europe and horse carts and history. There is an ungoverned feel to California’s mountains and deserts and reckless coast.
Jennifer Egan • The Candy House: A Novel
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A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
McInerney’s big job now is acting as a custodian for the statue of himself that celebrity has
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
His whole life, as far back as he could remember, he’d been perplexed by the way people allowed physical appearance to shape their lives. “You start by making decisions on who you are going to be with based on how they look,” he said. “Then, because of that, you make bad choices about religion and food and everything else. Then you are just rolling
... See moreMichael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
In a society that has endured something like total moral collapse, its monks had somehow become the single universally acceptable target of moral outrage. Every right-thinking Greek citizen is still furious with them and those who helped them, and yet no one knows exactly what they did, or why.