Shep Rose set his sights on being a modern-day Charles Dickens… then he got realistic. The result is his new collection of essays,, a part-memoir, part-travelogue, part-family history of sorts, titled as a nod to the Dickens classic, . «I was going to call the book, and it was going to be all about cancel culture and where we're at,» Shep shares with ET over video chat, explaining how the book came about (for the record, there is a chapter on that subject).