In a testament to ai5000 Editor-in-Chief Kip McDaniel's judgment of talent (or luck, as some see it), ai5000 book reviewer Sara Nelson critiques ai5000 Editor-at-Large Joe Flood's The Fires -- his first (of what we hope is many) non-fiction novel.

Continued from the March/April issue of ai5000...Michael Lewis' Big Short, Reviewed.

Book Review: Michael Lewis' latest -- and superb -- effort, "The Big Short." Review by Joe Flood.

We don’t read books about the Great Depression that were written in 1932. We don’t read newspaper accounts of the Mercury astronaut program from 1961. Instead, we turn to John Kenneth Galbraith’s book from 1954 about the Crash, and Tom Wolfe’s 1979 account of pilots being shot into space. 

Any media executive who doesn’t “get” The Curse of the Mogul—or anyone who doesn’t think it will be a long term bestseller—proves the point that authors Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, and Ava Seave are making throughout the