Lincoln and the Bardo

RWH065: Joyful Excellence w/ Brad Stulberg

The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires) - The Investor’s Podcast Network, 25 January 2026. The book comes up at 1 hr 39 min in.

Brad Stulberg explicitly tells listeners to read it as part of explaining why George Saunders is his foremost role model. He calls Saunders the best short story writer and best living novelist, admiring his meticulous brick-by-brick craftsmanship and his simultaneous warmth and humility as the ideal of the "humble badass." William Green admits he started but did not finish it.

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