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]]> <![CDATA[A Morning In With Dana Vachon]]> Finally, young white men are finding confidence and literary success. It's about time.

Shippy

]]> <![CDATA[A Morning In With Dana Vachon]]> Whoops! I don't know anything about Latam either - I meant Zapatistas, not Zapateros, sorry, just got off the phone with a guy in Spain.

AmyMora

]]> <![CDATA[A Morning In With Dana Vachon]]> I read the book twice because it was so bad.

The opening page should tell you how disorganized it's all gonna be, but it lacks conflict where it should have some eg, in his relationship with his girlfriend, it doesn't know jack Latin America or anything about the Latin elite or the Zapateros, and it knows absolutely nothing about investment banking, its firm premise is that all success is meritless and the bigger the wastrel you are, the higher you rise.

Know what it sounds like? Some lazy creep couldn't make it on Wall Street who sat around looking at all those who did and started making up excuses for their success to justify his own failures. In short, a guy with a loser mentality who wrote this to project his inner loser on everyone else.

The hype he's getting is amazing, though.

AmyMora

]]> <![CDATA[A Morning In With Dana Vachon]]> I went to high school with Dana ( or Dan as he was called then - not too assured to be called Dana yet). Talk about being overconfident- he spent an obsene amount of time and money to track down Mili-Vanili's "Girl You Know It's True" to use in his election speech for student body president- I don't quite remember how he made it tie in to student government or if it worked out that well... but you know how all these articles hint how he's kind of a pop culture savant with ADHD- it's basically true

recovering-hiptard

]]> <![CDATA[A Morning In With Dana Vachon]]> Now that I know more than I ever wanted to know about Dana Vachon's background, I'm pretty sure that he can at least afford a decent haircut.

NZ Expat

]]> <![CDATA[A Morning In With Dana Vachon]]> I ask myself what on earth would make you expect that he would be tall...

6hourslater

]]> <![CDATA[A Morning In With Dana Vachon]]> I think I speak for all of humanity when I say that we're getting pretty damned tired of "young [men] whose success is so assured that [they're] not afraid of seeming overconfident."

GorgeousGeorge

]]> <![CDATA[A Morning In With Dana Vachon]]> @cdmunch: No way, man, this is New Greenwich: he's standing IN the hydrangeas while hailing whatever helicopter happens to pass first- whether it's his or someone else's at the club- because that's the way he rolls.

the-judy-blume-legacy

]]> <![CDATA[A Morning In With Dana Vachon]]> He's trying to tell his helicopter pilot not to land on the hydrangeas.

cdmunch

]]> <![CDATA[A Morning In With Dana Vachon]]> Guys named Dana....ewwww.

I Don't Get It

]]> <![CDATA[A Morning In With Dana Vachon]]> I think his audience actually doesn't read books at all. From the sound of things, that could only help their enjoyment of his novel. That and a pretty dust jacket.

picardia

]]> <![CDATA[A Morning In With Dana Vachon]]> I'm a little confused as to what, exactly, Dana is doing in this photograph. People who were raised in Connecticut should not lift their arms in such a fashion, unless they're starring in a sponsored alcoholic-tea-partay video.

Julia Allison

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