were called phools you had to go through a humiliating few days such a great institution such as john updike but nevertheless lock all of the gates of 19 gates just before a night class is were really so big crowds are gathered and then for four years i was editor of the harvard lampoon which culminated just before i graduated, we had done a parity of the saturday review. it was a lovely literary magazine and the editors of psat and liked a lot. they got in touch with us and said lourdes you do a parody of us it as the july issue you be the editors you can parity as with the photograph and the articles. we said of course. we won't let five of us to new york that was july 1961 issue of mademoiselle and it was smart of them to do that because the july issue is not a good seller so they got a lot of interest with that issue by simply having us do it. we have a very beautiful model on the cover and she had a fly on her nose. that attracted attention and that is where harold hayes thought of hiring one of these people and said you did that? go and have a look at me add to john berendt it just so

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when was the last time you interviewed john updike? i can find those interviews and that is an incredible cultural sour, actually. >> people like that had 2, 30, 40 interviews. i think holbrooke had 50, john updike maybe 10, 20. anyway, this. it seems to me that the most important event... what wasit originly post-america was released when? >> 2008. 2007 is basically when i wrote it. i'm trng to remember if i have that right. >> rose: so you wrote it before we knew the implications of the global financial crisis. >> absolutely. >> rose: what did it tell you? once you had written this and you include in here now the impact of the global financial crisis on the way the world was moving. >> that's probably the most significant shift. it's funny you say that. because the financial crisis-- which i didn't predict, i talked about the problems of too much loose credit and low interest rates but i thought it would be a garden-variety financial crisis, the kind we had had many times in the last 20, 30 years. not the kind of shell shocker that t