Bruce Feiler
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802 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 8 Jun
Bruce Feiler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that's this renaissance process.
Of things, cancerversaries, soberversaries, daddy-daughter dances, mom proms.
I mean, you can go on and on and on of these gotcha ceremonies from when you adopt a child.
Adoption reunion families for people who gave up their children.
All of these occasions and in the new nonlinear lives that we live.
We crave these much more frequently than when Arnold Van Gennep invented the phrase rites of passage in 1909.
People are saying, I want it now and I want it on my terms, but they're scared.
And so what I'm trying to offer in this book is kind of a simple blueprint for how, you know, I think of it as a kind of a blueprint for humans together, a set of things that you can do right now to create these kinds of moments in your own families.
And what's great about this story is I'm not wagging my finger and telling you you need to do this.
This is what's actually happening.
I feel like I'm chronicling this story that is basically hiding in plain sight.
That's really – I remember the first person who read this book, my editor was like, yeah, this story has been hiding in plain sight.
I mean I wrote five books about religion.
Then I wrote about transitions.
I wrote the New York Times column for a decade on families.
I'm a little – and I wrote a book called Secrets of Happy Families.
I'm a little shamefaced that I didn't really put this together.
I feel like my job is to cover this story.
And I feel, you know, I'll give you an example.
My wife, Linda, her favorite chapter in this book is chapter three, the Taylor Swift divorce party.
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