The rumors are true: According to her publisher , J.K. Rowling is releasing a new book! But it’s definitely not another Harry Potter installment. Instead, it’s an entirely different tale called
Very Good Lives . Very Good Lives isn’t even fiction—in fact, it’s a print version of the author’s famous 2008 Harvard commencement speech. Rowling’s speech was not only inspiring, but the most-watched of all the Harvard commencement speeches. The speech voices sentiments like a reminder that compromising your own hopes and dreams for something more “practical” won’t make anyone happy. Or that failure can be a good thing: “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
