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THE VIRTUES We had to sign up for Topic to watch the second season of “Lykkeland,” which I’m getting very positive feedback on, so you should check out the first season on Amazon Prime, which seemingly everybody has access to but now I’ll get e-mail from people who don’t, who hate Amazon or have an […]

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

https://amzn.to/3phwCHG I’d never heard of it. But it was the second best selling book in Los Angeles, as reported by the L.A. “Times.” How could that be? Well, you can’t trust the L.A. “Times” best seller list. It’s easily manipulated. The system is opaque. And as a result there are anomalies all the time. Usually […]

The Mars Room

https://amzn.to/3AWIbuZ I got addicted to this book. Which is kind of funny, I could never fathom Rachel Kushner before. I read her “Flamethrowers” and I’m not sure I even understood it. Oh, I got the big picture, but the little picture, the photographs inside the movie, it felt like reading “Ulysses,” albeit much shorter. I’m […]

David Gelles-This Week’s Podcast

“New York Times” reporter David Gelles is the author of the best-selling book about Jack Welch entitled “The Man Who Broke Capitalism.” In addition to going deep into the Chairman and CEO of General Electric, we discuss Boeing and the climate, Gelles’s beats too. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/david-gelles/id1316200737?i=1000569882042 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/89ad8316-7eb5-4eae-a8f7-ab980f66deda/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-david-gelles https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast/episode/david-gelles-204873625