Author and musician Mishka Shubaly isn’t only the author of seven bestselling Kindle Singles. (If you don’t know what these are, Google Kindle Singles, where you’ll also learn that almost all the publications who have written about them, from The New York Times to The Atlantic, focus on Shubaly. This is because he’s been the most successful Kindle Single author of all time). (I have also published two Kindle Singles—you can see the cover of one of them in the NY Times link—but let’s just say The Times never called me for a quote). Did I get off track? Can we bring this back to Shubaly? His writing is fierce, honest and funny—not an easy trifecta to pull of—and much of it focuses on alcoholism and sobriety. While Shubaly’s path to recovery is controversial, he’s never shy about saying it works for him but doesn’t suggest others follow in his wake. In this episode, he and I talk about how the world is trying to make him into a hippie, why taking mushrooms doesn’t interfere with his sobriety and how his non 12-step-ness never stops him from recommending it to others, among many other topics.
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