Spoken Interludes, New York – Bizarrely Personal Q&A

Spoken Interludes, an old-fashioned salon-style spoken word event run by the delightful Delauné Michel, is one of my favorites. As authors, we have time to present our work, reading to a restaurant full of readers happily satiated with good food and drink. And there are always terrific questions afterward – the gig tends to feature the most engaged audiences.

This time around, after a brief reading, I get into personal therapy, humiliating summer jobs, and childhood resentments. What could be better?

I shared the stage with Justin Fox, author of The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street – a terrific guy who offered some next-level insights into the mess we’ve gotten ourselves into – and Julie Metz, who wrote Perfection, a memoir about the path of discovery she went on after her husband dropped dead and she found on his computer numerous trails to various relationships he’d been maintaining in not-so-secret. You may have seen her on that little Chicago talk show.

Here’s the link. I’m the last third of the clip. Hope you enjoy.