A fact from Going Infinite appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 January 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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... that Michael Lewis accused the author of a competing book of "trying to torpedo" Going Infinite, comparing the rival author to convicted fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried? Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/06/business/michael-lewis-going-infinite.html In a new book about the crypto bubble, Zeke Faux, a Bloomberg investigative reporter, recounts watching Mr. Lewis “fawning” over Mr. Bankman-Fried during an onstage interview at the Crypto Bahamas conference in 2022. (Reviewers, including at this paper, have compared the two books, giving the advantage to Mr. Faux.) When I mentioned this anecdote over lunch, Mr. Lewis leaned forward. “Here you have a person who’s written a book, and he’s trying to torpedo a rival book before it comes out?” he said. “That’s shocking. Talk about corrupt! So who do I think is more skeevy, Sam or him? I’d have to think about that.”
I've added myself as second author based upon my writing most of the current text. This is the first time I've nominated an article I've expanded that was recently authored by someone else, so kindly advise if I've handled that correctly. Coretheapple (talk) 17:06, 7 October 2023 (UTC)Reply
New enough, long enough. Hook's still quite long, I'd end it at "Going Infinite", and I probably would link that stub. No maintenance templates found and QPQ done. There are an awful lot of quotes here; fine in reception sections but I think you can put the Synopsis section in Wikivoice.--Launchballer09:51, 13 December 2023 (UTC)Reply
Given that "Hooks that unduly focus on negative aspects of living persons should be avoided", ALT0 should probably be struck, since it focuses on Lewis trash-talking another author. I'm not sure if if could be rephrased in a more acceptable way, possibly by moving the focus to Lewis rather than his target? What do people think of ALT0a ... that Michael Lewis, author of Going Infinite, compared a rival author to the subject of both their books, Sam Bankman-Fried? Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 21:40, 4 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
Not bad, could do with some context as to who Bankman-Fried is for those unfamiliar. I've taken the liberty of moving your comment to the bottom of this for reasons of chronology. I propose:
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The podcast If Books Could Kill devoted an episode to Going Infinite in which the two podcasters rake Lewis over the coals for being so gullible during the writing of the book, and for continuing to defend SBF after he was convicted of fraud. It's worth a listen if you have 75 minutes. Lots of quotable bits in there. Binksternet (talk) 05:56, 7 May 2024 (UTC)Reply