Tag Archive for ‘Broke USA’
Hear Me Speak at the Cleveland City Club
An alternative title for this post might be: Presidents, World Leaders, and Me. I happily said yes when I was invited to address the Cleveland City Club — and then I received a more formal invitation in the mail that listed some of its past speakers. The City Club was having me for its Friday [...]
Pinch Hitting on PBS’s NewsHour
I’ve been a fan of Ray Suarez’s work dating back to his days hosting NPR’s “Talk of the Nation.” My favorite part was always the brief essay he he would write to introduce that segment of the show. The man can write — and radio gave his words a real intimacy, almost like he was [...]
Even Bloomberg “Loves” BROKE
Well, I’m not sure what Mayor Mike thinks of BROKE but it was sweet to log on Twitter a few days back and read this tweet posted by the book review editor at Bloomberg News: “Bloomberg’s Jim Pressley, master reviewer of all finance books, loves ‘Broke USA’ by @grivlin” Lots of quotables in this review [...]
Payday: “like mosquitoes adapting”
Sure, sure, everyone was focused on whether Ohio would go for Obama or McCain in November 2008 but the question that drew me to the state a couple of times that fall was whether voters there would side with the payday lenders, who were seeking the right to continue charging fees that worked out to [...]
Way Too Much of Me/ radio links
Exciting week. My first book reading in 11 years, at the big Barnes & Noble on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. A really nice turnout, which was very gratifying. Earlier in the day I was on the Leonard Lopate show, on WNYC, which no doubt helped draw people to the bookstore (Lopate is a great interviewer), [...]
‘Incisive,’ ‘scathing,’ ‘important,’ ‘scrupulously fair’
Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank based here in New York, talks with me about BROKE USA on CSPAN-2′s “After Words.” It was taped in May on the convention floor of Book Expo America and first aired on June 12th. Click here to watch. Also, a real thrill to see my [...]
Kicking Up a Sh*tstorm in Cleveland, Tenn.
An intense first week as Broke, USA saw its official release on Tuesday. It was a thrill to start the week talking about the book on “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross, who uttered some of the sweetest words an author can ever hear: “We’ll continue talking with our guest, author Gary Rivlin, in the second [...]
Excerpt in Slate’s “The Big Money”
Click here to read about Tim Thomas, who owns Daddy’s Money Pawn Shop in Wichita, Kansas. I met Thomas at the annual check cashers convention in Las Vegas. What I loved about talking with him was his complete candor about the dollars and cents of the poverty industry, walking me through the various fees he [...]
“Fresh Air” interview with Terry Gross
“Turning Poverty Into a Multibillion-Dollar Industry”: Click here to hear me talking with Terry Gross about Broke USA. The rest of the description from the “Fresh Air” website: “Pawnshops, payday lenders, check cashers and rent-to-own companies take in $33 billion a year. In writing his new book, Broke, USA, Gary Rivlin discovered how the businesses [...]
BROKE ‘dissects,’ ‘eviscerates’ the ‘vulture finance’ industry
“Rivlin opens up, dissects and eviscerates the gigantic industry of vulture finance…a fascinating book.”
