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The Best Strangers in the World Stories from a Life Spent Listening

Ari Shapiro

INSTANT In his first book, broadcaster Ari Shapiro takes us around the globe to reveal the stories behind narratives that are sometimes heartwarming, sometimes heartbreaking, but always poignant. He details his time traveling on Air Force One with President Obama, or following the path of Syrian re...

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Lovett or Leave It

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Lovett or Leave It

It was discussed as a new book written by Ari Shapiro, and it is about the interesting strangers he met while traveling all over the world and interviewing people.

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The Best Strangers in the World.

— Episode: The Age of Gwynnocence

Episode: The Age of Gwynnocence

It was discussed as a new book written by Ari Shapiro, and it is about the interesting strangers he met while traveling all over the world and interviewing people.

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The Best Strangers in the World.

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

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Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

It was described as a beautiful read filled with stories from Ari Shapiro's life and was said to be quite readable, despite initially seeming like it would require a longer time to finish.

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The new book is the best strangers in the world. It is quite excellent. A read. Quite readable. I read this. I was like, I'm gonna need like five days to read this. I'm a slow reader. I read this in t...

— Episode: “Undeniably Essential” (w/ Ari Shapiro)

Episode: “Undeniably Essential” (w/ Ari Shapiro)

It was described as a beautiful read filled with stories from Ari Shapiro's life and was said to be quite readable, despite initially seeming like it would require a longer time to finish.

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The new book is the best strangers in the world. It is quite excellent. A read. Quite readable. I read this. I was like, I'm gonna need like five days to read this. I'm a slow reader. I read this in three.

Beautiful stories from a beautiful life. Well lived.

And our guest in his book, the best strangers in the world says he doesn't believe in any of this bullshit. Which I was him once.

One of the most moving and stirring parts of your book, Best Strangers in the World, is you talking about your experience with 9-11 and literally speaking on the phone to people in a journalistic capacity who then would perish, you know, I guess minutes or hours later.

And I think that that is one of the big reasons people connect with you is that you find the angle that like cuts through the noise. The way you talked about Pulse was like the perfect example.

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