Acquire a vital language with bestselling author John Lanchester, who will visit McNally Jackson to discuss his new book HOW TO SPEAK MONEY: WHAT THE MONEY PEOPLE SAY AND WHAT IT REALLY MEANS. In a style James Surowiecki describes as “refreshingly clear, sharp, and funny,” Lanchester sheds light on ambiguous acronyms (AAA, GDP, IMF), hedge funds, and mortgages, equipping readers with a necessary financial fluency. You can’t afford to miss this!

With Felix Salmon, host of SLATE MONEY, senior editor at Fusion, and a former columnist at Portfolio and Reuters.

John Lanchester is the author of three novels, including The Debt to Pleasure and Capital, as well as I.O.U., a book on the financial crisis. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books and was awarded the 2008 E.M. Forster Award. He lives in London.

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