ET Ask Home, a monthly questionnaire

With January guest Eoin Higgins

Paid subscribers get two extra issues a month. One of those is ET Ask Home, inspired by Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire (now featuring new questions for 2025). This month’s guest is journalist Eoin Higgins, whose new book, Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left, is out in just two weeks.

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Eoin, journalist and author of Owned.

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The questions, which you should feel free to answer at whatever length you'd like, are:

What is a piece of writing (book, play, poem, etc) that you think of often?

Recently I’ve been thinking a lot of Mariana Enriquez’s Our Share of Night. It’s a tale of supernatural horror that explores love, sexuality, art, the past—but really it’s a meditation on Argentina’s dictatorship. I can’t recommend it highly enough and I have to thank my friend Gabby Squalia for tipping me off to it.

What is the best piece of advice you ever received?

“Get an education” from almost everyone in my life after I dropped of high school out my senior year. It took a (lost) decade but I finally went to college, got my Masters, and stumbled into journalism.

What is your favorite song by your favorite singer?