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"FAILURE IS AN OPTION is the story of a Jewish man who’s failed most of his life. It’s actually personal stories tied together, from my early childhood all the way up until now, and about how in small ways I have failed all along."

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"THE MEANING REVOLUTION is a book about the difficulties every company has to solve in order to operate effectively. This is a dilemma between individual accountability and collective cooperation. On the one hand, every company wants each one of its members to work as hard and as conscientiously as possible. But on the other hand, the company also wants each member to subordinate their own individual work to the collective needs of the organization as a whole."

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"I was inspired to write this book after I had just completed writing my last two books: SO SAD TODAY, which is a collection of essays, and LAST SEXT, which is a collection of poems...and I found myself still trying to parse what love is, what lust is, and fantasy from reality, so I was still obsessed with these topics."

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"The inspiration for this book was actually a classic baseball book by the political writer George Will, who became a sports writer for a time and wrote a book called MEN AT WORK: THE CRAFT OF BASEBALL. And I am very upfront saying that this is George Will’s idea for soccer, because his book was terrific."

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"What planted the seed for this book idea was that following Dave’s stroke, because I knew he couldn’t remember anything in his state of amnesia and I didn’t really count on myself to be able to remember everything about the ICU and rehab, I began writing him a series of letters. And the word document, I saved it just the first night as DearDave.doc because that was how the first letter started."

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"My book ASK A MANAGER is about the difficult conversations you might need to have at work during your career and how to approach them, including the specific wording to use when you do. It focuses in particular on the awkward and kind of cringey conversations that people dread the most, things like what to say if you’re allergic to your boss’s perfume, or if you made a pretty serious mistake at work, or if you lost your cool and you snapped at a coworker."

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"This is what I guess some people would call a food memoir. THE BEST COOK IN THE WORLD came about because of a time when my mom was sick. I was in her kitchen in her cabin in the foothills of the Appalachians and it just struck me as how wrong it was—she was in the hospital, and the kitchen was cold and dark and empty, and it was just wrong. And it struck me then that there was no written record of her food. Not just recipes, but there was no written history, no memoir in even the most unofficial way, of how her food came to be. I wrote this book because I wanted to fix that."

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"The seed for this book was my experience building this startup and how painful that process was, and how much I didn’t want anyone else to have to go through the exact same pain. Or at least if they did go through it, they would know that they could have avoided it by listening to this book."

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"What planted the seed for this book was literally when I was a little girl, and my father gave me a pair of boxing gloves, and he taught me how to defend myself. I was the third of three daughters and this is the world I came into. And you’ll hear all about my boxing-glove story in the audiobook."

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"My book SUICIDE OF THE WEST is about how capitalism, democracy, modernity itself is unnatural and accidental. We stumbled into almost everything we value about the civilization we live in and because we stumbled into it, we tend to take it for granted. When you take something for granted that is a kind of ingratitude. So my argument sort of traces where Western civilization comes from, where democracy and capitalism come from, and how we are losing it."

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