“Given that the last few books of mine have been Wall Street-related – the next few won’t be, I’m moving on – but nevertheless, the last few have been, so he seemed like a really good person to sit down and talk to,” Lewis explained.Īfter “Liar’s Poker” was published in 1989, Lewis said, he and his former colleagues, like Bernard, bonded over the lively warts-and-all portrait of the ‘80s boys club on Wall Street. So, when Lewis was invited by Aspen Words – the nonprofit formerly known as the Aspen Writers’ Foundation – to speak at its Winter Words series, he requested Bernard as his interlocutor. But from the minute I met him, I adored him.” “You got the sense that if you said something stupid, he would let you know it. “He was somebody everybody was afraid of,” Lewis recalled with a laugh in a phone interview last week. Lewis will join the Human Piranha – Aspen’s Tom Bernard – on stage Thursday at Winter Words. Among those characters was the indomitable “Human Piranha,” who proffered his expertise to Lewis’s training class in “a steady stream of bottom-line analysis and profanity.” In Michael Lewis’s breakthrough book, “Liar’s Poker,” he vividly chronicled his time as a Wall Street bond salesman and memorably captured the larger-than-life characters of the go-go 1980s at Salomon Brothers. More info: Lewis’s talk will be broadcast live on Aspen Public Radio. “Wait-list” tickets available at the door on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 5:30 p.m.
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