Episode 31: I'm Wearing Tunics Now by Wendi AaronsToday 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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Revised Pinterest FAQs by Dana Norris
Episode 30: Revised Pinterest FAQs by Dana NorrisToday 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. Thanks for listening, and another story next week.
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A Prayer to St. Anthony by Rosamund Lannin
Episode 29: A Prayer to St. Anthony by Rosamund LanninToday we have a guest essay, A Prayer to St. Anthony by Rosamund LanninRosamund 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.” Check out our Instagram pageThanks for listening, another story next week.
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This Was Not the Plan by Molly O'Laughlin Kemper
Episode 28: This Was Not the Plan by Molly O'Laughlin KemperThis 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.Thank you for listening, please subscribe, and tell your friends!
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Dear Gen XXX by Emily Flake
Episode 27: Dear Gen XXX by Emily FlakeThis 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.Thank you for listening, tell your friends, another story next week.
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