David Denby On The Rocks

New Yorker movie critic has a new book out about his losses in the tech diving stock market of 2000. And what did he learn? “Dishearteningly, Mr. Denby’s coda – the lessons derived from his humiliating loss of friends, money and dreams – stumbles when it could soar. Toting up what caused the mania, Mr. Denby cites unquenchable greed and rank materialism, turning preacher instead of penitent. As for his own day-of-reckoning reflections, he edges up against death, morality and spirituality but ultimately retreats into boomer cliché. Love conquers all. Live life more slowly.”