Episode · How I Write · 2025-10-08
David Perell & Mitch Albom: books mentioned on How I Write
Mitch Albom: Storytelling Master Shares His Secrets | How I Write
You can’t walk through an airport without seeing a Mitch Albom book on one of the shelves. He’s most famous for writing Tuesdays with Morrie, which may very well be the best-selling memoir of all time.
David Perell discussed The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom and Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom. Mitch Albom recommended Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, and discussed Adventures in the screen trade by William Goldman.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Discussed“He is famous for writing The Five People You Meet in Heaven.”
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Tuesdays with Morrie
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom is a bestselling memoir chronicling the author's weekly visits with his former sociology professor who is dying of ALS.
Discussed“And then there's Tuesdays with my [music] think at one point was the bestselling memoir of all time.”
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Adventures in the screen trade
Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman is a widely celebrated memoir and instructional guide detailing the author's experiences as a prominent Hollywood screenwriter.
Discussed“Bill Goldman's book about adventures in the screen trade, he explains that the more action happens in the last seven minutes of a movie than than often happens in the first hour and a half of it.”
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Gilead
Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning epistolary novel, Gilead, is a profound meditation on faith, family history, and grace, told through the extended letter of an aging Congregationalist minister to his young son.
Recommended“One of my favorite books is Gilead by Marilyn Robinson.”
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