Dedicated with Doug Brunt: Emily St. John Mandel
Emily talks about the unstructured education of her childhood homeschooling and how that upbringing opened doors to literature, her growing confidence as an author, how she plunges into a new novel without an outline, the life-changing attention after STATION ELEVEN, the differences between writing for TV and writing a novel, and she reveals her beliefs about whether we're all living in a simulation.
Audio Interview with William Silber and Douglas Brunt
By turns hilarious and harrowing, Ghosts of Manhattan (Douglas Brunt) follows a winning but flawed protagonist as he struggles to find the right path in a complicated urban heart of darkness. Here is an audio interview with Doug from The Law Business Insider.
The Collapse of Bear Stearns: Interview with Doug Brunt
“[Ghosts of Manhattan] is a fictional story, but it is set within a historically accurate context in 2005, 2006, so, the years leading up to the mortgage-related financial crisis. And it follows the life of a fixed income salesman for Bear Stearns. And, so you really get a look at Wall Street from the inside out. It has that sort of insider baseball feel of what is life like day to day on the trading floor. As well as away from the office, which is, for folks who are on fixed income sales and trading, still part of the job.