The End of Your Life Book Club

by Will Schwalbe

My life has always been filled with suggesting, recommending. Sometimes my advice works out brilliantly, but sometimes not. And then I look back and wonder whether I really gave proper thought to my recommendations.

I don’t like being interrupted either—but I interrupt other people. I often forget that other people’s stories aren’t simply introductions to my own more engaging, more dramatic, more relevant, and better-told tales, but rather ends in themselves, tales I can learn from or repeat or dissect or savor.