![]() ![]() ![]() Think of any financial statements that you get from your 401K, your bank–they don’t want to be read. I mean, think of your credit card statement. It’s a kind of discourse that is designed to turn us away from it. It had to be even a little boring, because that’s the way we are spoken to when it comes to money and power machinations. I really try to drive that point home in the second, which was a big gamble … because it’s a very grating voice. Julie Sternberg: Can you say a little about the interplay between a given style and myth-making? ![]() … The message is, don’t bother yourself with this.” Hernan also discusses his views on everything from the ways in which fiction shapes reality, to the societal implications of the “How was your experience?” buttons that are now appearing in airport bathrooms across the nation. In a surprise move, he deliberately designed one segment of the book to be “a little off-putting … even a little boring, because that is the way we are spoken to when it comes to money and power machinations. ![]() In this episode of Book Dreams, he speaks with Eve and Julie about why he chose Trust’s innovative and surprising structure, and how that structure first reinforces and then deconstructs misconceptions about money. Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Hernan Diaz takes on nothing less than American capitalism in his latest novel, Trust. “I think the narratives about capital are an even more fundamental myth in America than those about the frontier.” ![]()
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