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The New New Thing

A New York Times Notable Book

Named One of the Best Books of the Year by Businessweek, Christian Science Monitor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Industry Standard

“A splendid, entirely satisfying book. . . . Resolutely skeptical but not at all cynical, brimming with fabulous scenes as well as sharp analysis. . . . The New New Thing may be to Silicon Valley what Pepys’s diary was to 1660’s London or Twain’s Roughing It to the American West of the last century.”

—New York Times Book Review

“Lewis . . . is America’s poet laureate of capital. No one writes more fluently about the art of making money.”

—Los Angeles Times Book Review

“Besides the echoes of Fitzgerald, there’s a lot of Tom Wolfe in Lewis’s book—a vintage New Journalism verbal snazziness and a Wolfe-ish profusion of exclamation marks.”

—New York

“Lewis does a sprightly job of conjuring up the heady world of Silicon Valley and its reigning ethos of innovation.”

—New York Times

“Lewis is a gifted storyteller. . . . While many writers will try to bring this fantasyland to life, few will do it as vividly as Michael Lewis.”

—Fortune

“Brilliant report from Silicon Valley. . . . Not even all Jim Clark’s money can buy him Michael Lewis’s talent.”

—The Atlantic

“Lewis has written a book to go on the shelf alongside Tracy Kidder’s 1980 classic about the computer business, The Soul of a New Machine.”

—Boston Globe

“More than anything else you could read right now, Michael Lewis’s book will help you understand how Silicon Valley has turned Wall Street—and the American economy—on its head.”

—Christian Science Monitor

“Michael Lewis’s The New New Thing is the best book ever written about Silicon Valley. . . . He has absolutely captured what Silicon Valley is like at this moment in history. . . . Very few people have Lewis’s ability to capture something deep with a few deftly written scenes.”

—Slate

“Lewis provides a look that is as penetrating as anything written so far.”

—Businessweek

“Like all Lewis’s writing, The New New Thing is funny. It is funny in a wry, carefully observed way. . . . It is funny also in a slashing, profane way. . . . Yet what makes The New New Thing an exceptional book is not how funny it is, but how closely it sticks to a mission of investigating the mythic properties of Clark’s singularly mercurial character.”

—Salon

“Lewis has the gift of making boardroom financial negotiations both thrilling and funny. . . . There are many acutely observed comic vignettes and anecdotes.”

—Times Literary Supplement

“Lewis manages to accomplish something rare in the oeuvre of high-tech tales: He makes it funny and unusual. This might be the first Internet book that will entertain people who know everything about the Net, as well as those who know nothing.”

—Minneapolis Star Tribune

“Lewis does a terrific job profiling Clark.”

—San Diego Union-Tribune

“Lewis . . . is unquestionably one of the most articulate business writers around. He’s a great storyteller.”

—Daily Deal

“[Clark’s] continuous quest for what Lewis calls ‘the new new thing’ makes for an epic tale.”

—Baltimore City Paper

“In relating the story of Jim Clark, Lewis uses a sort of Tom Wolfe approach, enlivening his account of complicated financial deals and even more complicated engineering feats with snappy cameo portraits, exclamatory descriptions and lots of subjective judgments.”

—Indianapolis Star

“In engaging narrative that even non-computer-savvy readers will enjoy . . . [Lewis] gives us an entertaining and often biting behind-the-scenes look at the movers-and-shakers in California’s Silicon Valley.”

—New Orleans Times-Picayune

“Lewis is a hilarious and savvy eyewitness to the entity he calls ‘Clarkworld.’”

—Techweek

“It may seem odd for a Silicon Valley story to focus on shipbuilding, but Lewis is entertaining enough to pull it off. New New turns out to be a Thackerayan character study of Clark and his cronies, and that’s enough to carry the tale. Any conclusions one draws about Silicon Valley are icing on the cake.”

—Seattle Times

“Lewis’s book is a high-tech Moby-Dick in which Clark plays Ahab and the white whale has been replaced by programming glitches.”

—Time Out New York

“With The New New Thing, Michael Lewis becomes the first to hang it all on one man: Jim Clark. . . . Many in the Valley will be furious that their habitat has been winnowed down to a single individual. But Lewis pulls it off.”

—Talk

“A rip-roaring profile of the high-rolling technology entrepreneur Jim Clark, and the strange Silicon Valley subculture in which he thrives, from one of our best business journalists. . . . Funny, feverishly romantic business reporting in which the American lust for wealth becomes a Byronic quest for the next dream that will change the world.”

—Kirkus Reviews, starred review