Leonard Lopate at Large: Lisa Brennan Jobs

October 15, 2018 00:57:33
Leonard Lopate at Large: Lisa Brennan Jobs
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Leonard Lopate at Large: Lisa Brennan Jobs

Oct 15 2018 | 00:57:33

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Today, Leonard welcomes Lisa Brennan Jobs to Leonard Lopate At Large talking about her memoir Small Fry

“We had lunch on a large covered balcony overlooking the sea. Bono asked my father about the beginning of Apple. Did the team feel alive? Did they sense it was something big and they were going to change the world? My father said it did feel that way as they were making the Macintosh, and Bono said it was that way for him and the band, too, and wasn’t it incredible that people in such disparate fields could have the same experience? Then Bono asked, ‘So, was the Lisa computer named after her?’ There was a pause. I braced myself—prepared for his answer. My father hesitated, looked down at his plate for a long moment, and then back at Bono. ‘Yeah, it was,’ he said. I sat up in my chair. ‘I thought so,’ Bono said. ‘Yup,’ my father said.I studied my father’s face. What had changed? Why had he admitted it now, after all these years? Of course it was named after me, I thought then. His lie seemed preposterous now. I felt a new power that pulled my chest up. ‘That’s the first time he’s said yes,’ I told Bono. ‘Thank you for asking.’ As if famous people needed other famous people around to release their secrets.” – excerpt from Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s memoir “Small Fry,” courtesy of Vanity Fair

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