Attached as an appendix to a pre-trial motion with a series of tweets from one of Gawker’s editors was a tweet I had sent back and then a response from the editor to me. Ryan Holiday: One of the strangest experiences of writing the book came when I was about two thirds of the way through reading what was close to 20,000 pages of legal documents. Did Peter Thiel or Nick Denton select you to write the chronicle of their feud? How and when did you realize that you needed to write a book about what happened? But in C onspiracy, everything Holiday tells us about Thiel’s meticulously planned plot to destroy Gawker-so he promises anyway-is true.Īndrew Keen: In explaining how you chose to write the book, you say, “it somehow dragged me in, too.” But I can’t imagine you being dragged into anything you didn’t want to do. Holiday’s first bestseller was entitled Trust Me, I’m Lying. Ryan Holiday’s new book, Conspiracy, focuses on the story of Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel’s successful vendetta against the website Gawker. In our conspiratorial times, it’s hardly surprising that we have books about conspiracies.
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