This interview was originally broadcast on Sept. 26, 2012.
After the global financial crisis hit in 2008, Pulitzer Prize winner J.R. Moehringer was so angry at banks, he says, he decided to write about the people who rob them — in the form of fiction, since he’s not an economist.
“I thought it would be healthy to live vicariously through a bank robber at that moment that bankers were ruining the world,” Moehringer tells Fresh Air‘s Terry Gross.
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