Goodreads asked Matt Burriesci:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Matt Burriesci I've worked in the nonprofit sector for 20 years now, even founded one back in college–– and I always thought it was a rich area to explore. So I guess that's where Nonprofit (my novel) came from. My upcoming book (Dead White Guys: A Father, his Daughter, and the Great Books of the Western World) was inspired by my daughter Violet, who was born in 2010. When she was born, it was a strange point in my career, in my life, and in the country as a whole. I was filled with anxiety about a lot of things, and I returned to the Great Books to find answers, or just calm me down. I didn't really find any answers, but I did find some questions worth asking. It also calmed me down-- but the experience of re-reading these works (or reading some of them for the first time) changed the way I thought about myself, my life, and everything around me.

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