Max Barry: Risk

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In this Sydney PEN: 3 Voices talk, bestselling satirical novelist Max Barry explains how our attitudes toward risk define and confine us. His lecture uses the mishandling of financial risk in the corporate world as a springboard to a more general discussion about the ways our attitudes towards different kinds of risk define us as people - how risk informs the fundamental decisions we make about our lives.

Max Barry is the author of the novels Syrup (1999, an LA Times Best Book of the year), Jennifer Government (2003, a New York Times Notable Book), and Company (2006, a New York Times bestseller).

State Library of NSW, Sydney, July 2009

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Sydney PEN Centre

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