#150: Mohsin Hamid, novelist
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How to Accept a Law School Thesis
I remember watching Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino in my first year of law school and really liking that kind of disaggregated way of telling a narrative, but sort of broken parts. And so I said, look, a trial is about trying to arrive at truth through competing contradictory claims, and this novel is exactly the same thing. Write that on a page, and we're good to go. And so that became my law school thesis. Then I didn't want to work in the law firm, and McKinsey had begun recruiting from law school at this time. So I got a job as a consultant. It was doing the dot com era; people were leaving consulting in droves
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