Book · 1993 · Literary collections
Chicken Soup for the Soul
101 Positive, Practical, and Powerful Stories about Making the Best of a Bad Situation
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And then somehow in the 80s, I think the chicken soup for the soul Came out and it was a huge hit and then they wrote like 40 other ones I mean made them more like specific It was really bad watching that person sell out.
Bill Burr · Monday Morning Podcast · Mar 2025 The best things said about it
If I wrote Chicken Soup for the Soul and it sells five million copies now I want to write Chicken Soup for the automobile Chicken Soup for the fountain pen.
Stephen Dubner Freakonomics Radio · Jan 2023 Um and that's why i love books like chicken soup for the soul by jack canfield um and and a lot of other.
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Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Amy Newmark is an immensely popular collection of uplifting, inspirational short stories and real-life parables designed to comfort and motivate readers. The book became a massive cultural phenomenon, prompting a vast array of specific thematic spin-offs. Bill Burr discussed the work on his Monday Morning Podcast in March 2025, offering a sharp critique of how the authors capitalized on the original triumph by churning out dozens of overly specific follow-up titles, expressing his distaste for watching creators sell out in that manner. Stephen Dubner also mentioned the publication on Freakonomics Radio in January 2023, utilizing it as a prime hypothetical example of how exceptionally successful authors might attempt to endlessly exploit a one-hit wonder by creating specialized versions for everyday items or industries. Meanwhile, Jamie Alderton brought up the book on Modern Wisdom in August 2020 to illustrate his personal affinity for parables and narrative-driven self-improvement literature.
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Bill Burr And then somehow in the 80s, I think the chicken soup for the soul Came out and it was a huge hit and then… 1
“And then somehow in the 80s, I think the chicken soup for the soul Came out and it was a huge hit and then they wrote like 40 other ones I mean made them more like specific It was really bad watching that person sell out”
Jamie Alderton um and that's why i love books like chicken soup for the soul by jack canfield um and and a lot of other 1
“um and that's why i love books like chicken soup for the soul by jack canfield um and and a lot of other”
Stephen Dubner if I wrote Chicken Soup for the Soul and it sells five million copies now I want to write Chicken Soup for… 1
“if I wrote Chicken Soup for the Soul and it sells five million copies now I want to write Chicken Soup for the automobile Chicken Soup for the fountain pen”
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“Jack Canfield who co-created Chicken Soup for the Soul which has sold hundreds and hundreds of millions of copies and then they ultimately sold as a franchise.”
“So I went chicken soup for the spirit, chicken soup for the soul, and I got goosebumps. Told my wife, she got goosebumps. Told Mark, called Mark, what do you think of this? He got goosebumps. Called her agent, he got goosebumps. Went to New York, met with 21 publishers, seven a day for three days.”
“And later he said, "Yeah, you know," he took out an ad in New York on a billboard thanking all the publishers that rejected Chicken Soup for the Soul.”
“And now that then they had to go to a rotary press like you see in the movies when the newspaper's getting printed. And they had three shifts just doing nothing but printing chicken soup for the soul.”
“Maybe I need to read chicken soup for the fucking guy who didn't tell that guy to go fuck himself But but should have but it's probably better that he didn't because he still has all his natural teeth For the soul”
“He's the co-creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul, and a very sweet guy, very smart guy.”
“Chicken Soup for the Soul I was like I got to buy this chicken soup”
“I don't remember what the book said, but I was compelled to buy this chicken soup for the soul book. You actually bought that?”
“and then that's how I got to know say Jack Canfield who is the co-creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul and many others who introduced me to my book agent”