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  • I'm Wearing Tunics Now by Wendi Aarons

    I'm Wearing Tunics Now by Wendi Aarons
    2024/07/25
    Episode 31: I'm Wearing Tunics Now by Wendi Aarons

    Today we have a guest essay. I'm Wearing Tunics Now by Wendi Aarons, which was originally published by McSweeney's Internet Tendency.

    Wendi Aarons is a freelance humor writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker Daily Shouts, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, US Weekly Fashion Police, Wall Street Journal, and various other outlets including NPR Austin affiliate KUT.

    Her writing is included in the anthologies Listen to Your Mother: What She Said Then, What We’re Saying Now (Putnam, 2015) and Keep Scrolling Til You Feel Something:Twenty-One Years of Humor from McSweeney’s Internet Tendency (McSweeneys, 2019). Her humor pieces have been performed by award-winning actresses including Uzo Aduba of "Orange Is the New Black”, Sharon Horgan, and Alison Brie of “Glow.”

    Wendi is also the author of the best selling humor essay collection I'm Wearing Tunics Now (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2022), Socks (Chronicle Books, 2023) and middle-grade novel Ginger Mancino, Kid Comedian (June 2022, BookBar Press).
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    9 分
  • Revised Pinterest FAQs by Dana Norris

    Revised Pinterest FAQs by Dana Norris
    2024/07/18
    Episode 30: Revised Pinterest FAQs by Dana Norris

    Today we have a guest essay, Revised Pinterest FAQs by Dana Norris This piece of satire was originally published by The Rumpus’s Funny Women Column.

    Dana Norris is the author of The Storytelling Code: 10 Simple Rules to Shape and Tell a Brilliant Story, and the founder of Story Club, a monthly storytelling show that has been featured in Poets & Writers magazine. Story Club is currently held on a monthly basis in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and SW Michigan.

    Dana resides in the Cleveland area, where she teaches for Literary Cleveland. She has been featured in Cleveland.com, Cleveland Scene, the Chicago Reader, the Chicago Tribune, as well as on WBEZ and WCPN. Dana has been named one of the funniest women in Ohio by Cleveland.com. In 2015 she was named one of Chicago's top 50 literary influencers by New City Chicago.


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    5 分
  • A Prayer to St. Anthony by Rosamund Lannin

    A Prayer to St. Anthony by Rosamund Lannin
    2024/07/11
    Episode 29: A Prayer to St. Anthony by Rosamund Lannin

    Today we have a guest essay, A Prayer to St. Anthony by Rosamund Lannin

    Rosamund Lannin reads and writes in Chicago, where she's pleasantly surprised to have lived for over 20 years. During that time, she has published short stories and personal essays in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Tor.com, and Vice. She's currently working on a novel about live action roleplaying and the nature of fantasy; if you're an agent who's into that, don't be shy. You can find her most places on the Internet @rosamund.

    A Prayer to St. Anthony was originally published by The Woodlands Magazine.

    Rosamund introduces her essay as, “When my new husband was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, I was forced to examine my unhealthy relationship with objects.”


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    7 分
  • This Was Not the Plan by Molly O'Laughlin Kemper

    This Was Not the Plan by Molly O'Laughlin Kemper
    2024/01/03
    Episode 28: This Was Not the Plan by Molly O'Laughlin Kemper


    This week we have a guest essay. "This Was Not the Plan," an essay about birth and grief in the early pandemic, first appeared in MUTHA Magazine in June 2022.

    Molly O'Laughlin Kemper is a writer, translator, editor, and reader based in New York City. A 2022 resident of St. Nell's Humor Writing Residency for Ladies, she is also a co-host of The Dead Ladies Show NYC, which celebrates ladies who were in some way fabulous during their lifetimes.


    Excerpts of the song Sweetness by Audiosphere were played in this podcast.

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    15 分
  • Dear Gen XXX by Emily Flake

    Dear Gen XXX by Emily Flake
    2023/12/28
    Episode 27: Dear Gen XXX by Emily Flake

    This week we have a guest essay from Emily Flake's sex and relationship advice column for AARP The Arrow aimed at Gen X men called Dear Gen XXX, but I promise her reponses are real gems.

    A regular contributor to The New Yorker, Emily Flake is the author of several books, including Mama Tried, a book of essays and cartoons about parenting, and the newly published creativity deck Joke in a Box. She does a weird hybrid of standup and cartoons on stages throughout New York City and beyond. She is the owner and operator of St. Nell’s Humor Writing Residency for Ladies, “a space for womxn practitioners of the humor arts to wrestle their projects into submission.”


    This episode contains the mention of sex and even some fun takes on sex positions so best not to listen with children.

    Excerpts of the song Swing Jazz 50s by Summer Sound were played in this podcast.

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    9 分
  • Clowns in Her Corner

    Clowns in Her Corner
    2023/12/21
    Episode 26: Clowns in Her Corner

    Motherhood made me champion ladies getting theirs, with clowns if necessary.

    Story notes by Sara Mannheimer

    Excerpts of the song Swing to the 60s Again by Marius Joppich were played in this podcast.

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    15 分
  • Baby Jesus

    Baby Jesus
    2023/12/14
    Episode 25: Baby Jesus

    How do men change when they become fathers?

    Baby Jesus was originally published by Full Grown People.

    Edited by Jennifer Niesslein of Full Grown People.

    Excerpts of the song Flaming 50s by Higgins were played in this podcast.

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    25 分
  • The Feral Instincts of Motherhood

    The Feral Instincts of Motherhood
    2023/12/07

    Episode 24: The Feral Instincts of Motherhood

    What happens when two friends are different types of mothers?

    This essay was originally published by Mutha - an alternative parenting magazine started by MIchelle Tea.

    Story notes by Sara Mannheimer, editing by Meg Lemke.

    Excerpts of the song Adventurous 60s by Simon Armitage appeared in this episode.

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    12 分