[lbo-talk] Wall Street Noir

[Dennis Claxton]

I mentioned Akashic Books here yesterday and last night I got a copy 
of their latest, an anthology called Wall Street Noir.  Here's the 
first question of an interview with the editor from the Akashic 
website and his bio from his own website.  Most of the contributors 
to Wall Street Noir have related backgrounds:

Q&A with Wall Street Noir editor Peter Spiegelman

Q: Where did the idea for Wall Street Noir come from?

A: The idea for Wall Street Noir grew out of a view I've long 
held--based on nearly twenty years of working there--that Wall Street 
is actually quite a noir-ish place, a social crucible that is much 
more Jim Thompson than Warren Buffet. This runs contrary to many 
popular notions, I know, and to the public image--of a well-scrubbed, 
rational, even glamorous place--that the Street likes to project, but 
when you consider the big money, dysfunctional egos, cutthroat 
competition, class struggle, desperation, and sweaty paranoia that 
wash around there, it's less of a stretch.

http://www.akashicbooks.com/wallstreetnoir.htm

Peter Spiegelman is a veteran of over twenty years in the financial 
services and software industries, and has worked with leading banks, 
brokerages and central banks around the world. In the mid-1990's, 
Peter left his position as a Vice President at a major Wall Street 
firm to become a partner in a banking software company. The company's 
product soon became a leader in its marketplace, and in the 
late-1990's Peter and his partners sold their business to a larger 
firm. Peter retired from the software industry in 2001, to write

http://www.peterspiegelman.com/content.php?page=bio&b=1&h=1&r=1&f=2