Episode description

“How do you spot a ‘we should not be friends’ friendship? It's when someone shows you who they are, and you like it.”

Will Schwalbe, author of The End of Your Life Book Club, tells us how an unexpected friendship with a polar-opposite grew into a lifelong journey through love, losses and triumphs. Schwalbe and Chris Maxey, former Navy SEAL and founder of the Island School, join us to talk about Schwalbe's new book, We Should Not Be Friends: A Story of a Friendship, meeting through a Yale secret society, the importance of vulnerability, what they learned about themselves and each other through telling this story and more live at Barnes & Noble Union Square with Poured Over host, Miwa Messer.  

Featured Books (episode): 

We Should Not Be Friends by Will Schwalbe 

The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe 

The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone 

The Rediscovery of North America by Barry Lopez 

Poured Over is produced and hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays).