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Raphael Chayim Rosen

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Raphael Chayim Rosen is the author of the book Pedestal: What Makes American Democracy Stable And Why Your Everyday Thoughts, Words & Actions Determine Its Success and the substack, Lady Liberty’s Pedestal, exploring the political culture, customs, and norms that make American democracy stable.

An award-winning scholar of history, philosophy, and physics trained at Harvard and Cambridge Universities, Rosen is also a novelist, patent-holding inventor, and one of Bloomberg’s Top 25 Social Entrepreneurs in America.

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Enjoyed Sink, thanks! I found it interesting that you wrote it as a first-person narrative with a female voice, especially when I tend to think of the hedge fund world as bro-centric. Why did you choose to write that way, and was it more difficult and/or more fun?

Raphael Chayim Rosen Fun question, Doni. A few answers:

1. I had the idea of Celeste (Esther) about eight years ago while writing a previous novel about Sol Van Rensselaer-…moreFun question, Doni. A few answers:

1. I had the idea of Celeste (Esther) about eight years ago while writing a previous novel about Sol Van Rensselaer-Kauffman, her brother. Sol is an academically-inclined type and I'd envisioned his older sister as a business-minded, hard-nosed lady. I wanted to continue writing about the Van Rensselaer-Kauffman family and Celeste was the character I most wanted to write about. In my head she worked in finance which made her the natural heroine for "Sink."

2. I enjoy the challenge of writing from a female perspective. It often forces my writing to be more deliberate, and I appreciate that discipline.

3. Finance in my experience is indeed a "bro-centric" world as you call it, but there are all types of people in finance and Celeste and Ana seemed like a powerful pair who could easily make it big. It was definitely more fun to write about them than to write about banker stereotypes which would have been at once more cliché and also less interesting and duller to write.(less)

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What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Raphael Chayim Rosen If you love it, do it. Don't put it off to some mythical day when you have time.

Also, read "On Writing" by Stephen King. It's a lovely, inspiring book…moreIf you love it, do it. Don't put it off to some mythical day when you have time.

Also, read "On Writing" by Stephen King. It's a lovely, inspiring book from a prolific writer who had to fight hard to earn his well-deserved fame.(less)

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NYC Book Reading

I'll be doing an intimate book reading for Sink in New York City on December 20th.

Details:
410 Riverside Drive, Apt 43
New York, NY 10025
Sunday, December 20
7:30 pm
At the home of Professors Geraldine Downey and Niall Bolger

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