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Thanks to everyone who came out last night to @bostonathenaeum for You’ve Changed! 

A great crowd and a brilliant conversation partner in @ellenbarryny_.

Photos by @bostonathenaeum, @asyapartan, and @michael.kozuch.7. 

@aevitas_creative @aud
Very happy to be heading to Ptown next week for a change chat with @paul_lisicky at @eastendbooksptown. 

If you’re around Friday June 5, come say hi! 

(Link to event in bio.)

@aevitas_creative @auderemedia @williammorrowbooks @youvechangedbo
A complete and total blast talking change last night with @daveholmes at @booksoup.

I was predictably terrible at remembering to take pictures but thank you to all my Los Angeles friends who came out. Many amazing people in one room.❤️

I get a litt
Barney Frank, who I was lucky to profile nearly two decades ago, was funny, prickly, impatient, incredibly sharp, and surprisingly tender—all within the span of about five minutes.

One thing I remember from my time with him was how skeptical h
@theobserveruk excerpts part of Chapter 5 of You’ve Changed—Say My (New) Name—online and in yesterday’s print magazine.

As the self has become more like a remix than a statue, name change has exploded in western countries. A
You’ve Changed appearing before the cultural parole board known as @nymag’s The Approval Matrix 

#goodquadrant #youvechangedbook
Last night at @changinghands in Tempe was SO MUCH FUN. Thanks to everyone who came out. Great people, great questions, and many books sold. 

Next stops: San Diego tomorrow at @dharmabumtemple and Los Angeles on Thursday at @booksoup. 

@auderemedia
On the Way to Self Knowledge, edited by my dad and Jacob Needleman. 1976.

You’ve Changed: The Promise and Price of Self-Transformation, by me. 2026.
I grew up a few blocks from @christophersbooks, the Potrero Hill staple and one of the best indie stores in the country. It was so fun to stop in today to say hi to @tminot and to meet Jax before my YOU’VE CHANGED event Tuesday night with @skal
From a bully-turned-Buddhist to an octogenarian trying to change her temperament (and threatening to stab me) to borderlines and narcissists in a three-month self-transformation group led by a psychotherapist with his own prickly personality, the fir

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