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Sernovitz: Modern fiction treats finance as a sensational backdrop
“Finance in fiction today usually has two main formats. One is we want to write about rich people in New York City. They need to have a job. We'll ask our college buddy who works at a hedge fund to give us some notes. Send some trades. We'll have corny names fo…”
Liar's Poker inspired Greg Lippmann to join Wall Street despite its warnings
“So the beginning of the book, The Big Short, he said, well, he wrote Liar's Poker as a cautionary tale. He didn't want people to go into Wall Street, is what he thought. And people read that book, including me, and said, this is exactly what I want to do, righ…”