Dealbook and The Gods of Greenwich
Thing we can totally imagine someone in Greenwich saying: “This rosé is all the rage on St. Barth.”
DealBook Reviews Wall St. Novels
My favorite quote from DealBook: A pair of Ferragamo loafers, in particular, seems to be the Chekhov’s gun of financial thrillers — wear those in Chapter 1, and you’re doing 20 to life by the epilogue.
Beach Reads
On Friday, the NYT included The Gods of Greenwich in its list of beach reads for 2011. Here’s one reader from Folly Beach, South Carolina who wants to weigh in on the subject!
Happy Memorial Day
Janet Maslin included The Gods of Greenwich in her summer beach reads: “The beach book has undergone a makeover for 2011. As the season’s traditional big names and story lines run out of gas, new variations on old formulas have emerged. Want a story of power, greed and conspicuous consumption? Forget Hollywood; think hedge fund.”
Norb Vonnegut
The New York Times describes my novels as “money porn,” “a red-hot franchise,” and “glittery thrillers about fiscal malfeasance.” Through fiction I explore the dark side of money and the motivations of those who have it, want more, and will steamroll anybody who gets in their way.