Christie Smythe Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Christie Smythe

@of_hurts Interesting! I'll take a look. (I think this is a play on the title of Max Weber's famous "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism," published in 1905. I did read that one in college.)

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I have wanted to read American Kingpin…but I read a review once that said Nick Bilton ultimately embraced the government’s “rhetorically superior narrative” and that stopped me. An affirmative narrative is always superior in human minds to “no, it didn’t happen like that.”

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Part of him always seemed to be waiting for me to turn on him and abuse his intimacy, much like the now-late New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm all but instructed reporters to do in The Journalist and the Murderer. https://t.co/nJhUtHHBGP

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A little refresher on SMIRK: SMIRK is not an “authorized biography” of Martin Shkreli. I do not seek his permission or approval for anything in this book. SMIRK is a memoir of my personal experiences and observations, included at my sole discretion. https://t.co/YEgNB9VGkZ https://t.co/69KdO7uxRI

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The extent to which I dorked out on first meeting James B. Stewart probably embarassed both of us. Hilariously, Martin Shkreli is a huge fan, too. We both loved Den of Thieves. (Martin wanted to be Ivan Boesky.) https://t.co/qP9AS7Uq9j

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"Scam," "grift," "con" are hard-boiled terms for financial crime that harken back to the 1940s, and David Maurer's "The Big Con." We like to use these words for every kind of fraud (they're great for headline writers). But does the shoe always fit? https://t.co/8H8gZrliz4

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Lol, I should have amended that to say “a whole Ayn Rand book before coming to a conclusion about her.” There are a surprising number of masochists who claim to have hate-read all of Atlas Shrugged just to have Twitter arguments. https://t.co/dxpOYJNBcH

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“Please all, and you will please none.” Aesop's fables contain a lot of wisdom that's still relevant today. As a writer (especially dealing with a subject where EVERYONE has a strong opinion, like Martin Shkreli), it feels especially relevant. https://t.co/3LeclJ4QfI

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I really love this Jacob Riis photo in How the Other Half Lives. An Iroquois family in a tenement. It just seems so stunningly alive and contemporary…like these are people from today dressing in old clothes and posting a photo with an old-timey Instagram filter. https://t.co/99Gzn1za3F

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@NKondratiev Tom Wolfe covered the subject pretty well in the Bonfire of the Vanities. From a satirical perspective, of course.