Welcome to Five Good Questions. I’m your host, Jake Taylor.

Fact: the average American watches 5 hours of television per day. What would the world be like if we dedicated one of those hours to reading books instead?

I don’t know, but I’d like to find out.

So to inspire others to read more, I ask five good questions of interesting authors and share the results with you every Friday. Let’s see if together, we can’t rescue some of those lost hours.