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"My book is about my experience of living in Japan as a young man, as a student at a film school in Tokyo in the 1970s. It was a very extraordinary time to be there as a young Westerner who was interested in Japanese film and theater."

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"My book is called HOW LUCK HAPPENS and it is about how you make luck happen in your life. I started thinking about the topic after I wrote THE GRATITUDE DIARIES and I was inspired to look at other big topics that affect our lives and happiness. It occurred to me that we think of luck as something that just falls from the sky, but as I researched the topic with my co-author, Barnaby Marsh, I realized that we have so much more control over events than we sometimes realize."

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"The story of my book is that I’ve been writing these “I’ve Been Thinking” columns for some time now in my Sunday paper and lots of friends and readers encouraged me to put them together into a book because they seem to help people with their day-to-day life. I’m a big believer in inspiration books that I have by the side of my bed that have helped me in my own life and I know how important books like this are to people if they’re going through rough patches or they’re dealing with something for the first time."

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"My book is about a SEAL team at war, and someone who wants to belong to that team: someone who wants to be a part of something bigger than himself. He tries to imagine what that is as he’s trying to become that bigger thing."

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"I’ve described BACHELOR NATION as a combination of an oral history of the franchise, a cultural analysis of why so many smart feminists are obsessed with the show, and also a lot of juicy, behind-the-scenes tidbits about how the sausage is made."

"THE COMMON GOOD is about the obligations we owe one another, the duties we owe each other as members of the same society. I wrote THE COMMON GOOD because we’re living in an incredibly stressful and cynical and narcissistic era."

"My book is about retiring and how that whole world is changing for baby boomers. It’s going to be so much different than the way our parents looked at retirement."

"My book is about the experience of women in Silicon Valley. It is called BROTOPIA: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley. It is my first book. And I wrote it because while Silicon Valley is an incredible place that's created incredible things, there is one glaring flaw and that is that women have largely been excluded from the greatest wealth creation in the history of the world. There are very few women building and working at these companies."

"My book, CRINGEWORTHY, is a nonfiction book about feelings of embarrassment, self-consciousness, awkwardness, and just generally things that make me cringe. And I wrote it because these are feelings that have driven me insane for most of my life."

"My book is about trying to figure out my own prosperity gospel. I thought I was an expert in this movement called the American Prosperity Gospel, which has millions of believers who think that God will give them health and wealth and all manner of good things in response to their own righteousness. And so I wrote an academic book about it and thought myself to be quite the careful and distant observer of it."