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The Next Chapter is one of our favourite CBC Radio One shows, you can hear it on Mondays at 1pm or Sundays at 4pm. On March 8th, The Next Chapter featured Winnipeg author Michael van Rooy, talking about, Your Friendly Neighbourhood Criminal with Rabindranath Maharaj on The Amazing Absorbing Boy, Sharon McCartney on "Decaf" from her book For and Against and Emily White on Lonely: Learning to Live With Solitude.

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When I'm writing well I don't read much and so for the past year I have a stack of books waiting to be started or finished. And because I write late into the night and get up very early, I don't have a night-table; in fact I don't often use a bed. I unroll a sleeping bag on the floor of my office with the cats so my wife can sleep through the night. A lot of books get read not at home, but in various places as I travel.

I like to read far above my weight. It shows me what writing can be when its done right.

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"For the last 20 years, Wall Street has been increasingly taken over by a breed of math and science whizzes known as quants. By applying math to markets, they were able to predict and price risk, down to the penny. Or so they said. This is the story of their rise and fall, of how they turbocharged finance, and then drove it off a cliff to the detriment of the entire world.
What's the big deal? Well, for starters, the global financial crisis. Along with subprime mortgages and overleveraged banks, these quants are the folks we can thank for it. They're a notoriously reclusive bunch, but author Scott Patterson gets extraordinary access to their lives, complete with the luxury cars, the private jets, and the high-stakes poker in their hotel suites. Wonder why all the big news these days is about what banks and hedge funds should and shouldn't be able to do? Read this book."- Matthew Philips, Newsday, March 8, 2010.

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