Michael Lewis

Published: June 9, 2019, 8 p.m.

Whether writing about the business of baseball, or the strange and surprising subcultures of the financial world, Michael Lewis has a penchant for iconoclasts of industry, and characters so fascinating they seem imagined. Several of his bestselling books, including \u201cMoneyball\u201d and \u201cThe Big Short,\u201d have been made into movies.

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On April 11, 2019, Michael Lewis came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater to talk with Jacob Weisberg about his career in journalism, from reading Tom Wolfe on the floor of his childhood home to the overnight success of his debut publication \u201cLiars Poker.\u201d The conversation was interspersed with clips from Lewis\u2019 new podcast \u201cAgainst
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