These Feel-Good Books Were Everywhere. Now, the Brand is Cooked.

The self-help series Chicken Soup for the Soul is the best-selling non-fiction book series of all time.

In recent years , the company has become a line of packaged foods, a DVD kiosk retailer, and a meme stock.

With the help of journalist Amanda Chicago Lewis , we tell the story of how this feel-good brand went from comfort food to junk.