'I think writing essays, especially when they are earnest, there's a vulnerability to it and I think that exposes you a little bit more. Whereas like with a joke, you can hide behind it.' Jena Friedman #NotFunny drops today. @simonschusteer Audio interview and article drop Fri.

Thanks for the shout out ⁦Harvard Book Store⁩ !!! Not Funny - Harvard Book Store harvard.com/book/not_funny/

Thank you Jon Stewart Mr. Bob Odenkirk Patton Oswalt reggie watts Jim Gaffigan and FRED ARMISEN for letting me interview you for my book!

'It (SST Records ) became the coolest, most sought-after, most respected indie label in America. But as time went on, its practices became increasingly corporate.' Jim Ruland #CorporateRockSucks malachi hatchette #relistenability
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'I suppose if there's any unifying theme through the stories, often it's the relationships between family members and friends and ex-boyfriends.' #LingMa
#BlissMontage #relistenability Farrar,Straus&Giroux
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'I rolled the dice so that all the rolls that you see in the story are rolls that I actually made, and then I engineered the decisions and so on to fit the arc of the story I wanted to do.' Penn Jillette #Random Akashic Books #relistenability
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With rumors of a second Fyre Festival circulating, refresh your memory on the foibles of Fyre Festival 1
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'Also, if you're not a fan of my comedy and you google my name and 'not funny' a link to the book will come up.' Jena Friedman is on a whole other level! Editing her interview for the next ep. of wprBETA Stay tuned! #notfunny

.Tig Notaro Congratulations on your excellent work directing Atsuko Okatsuka's @HBOMax special, #TheIntruder . It's cool how Atsuko went from imitating your delivery in her early standup work to having you direct this fantastic special. #FullCircle
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'You can do a lot without having papers. So I like to normalize it by saying undocumented folks are just Americans without papers. They're able to go to public school. They're your friends. They're your neighbors.' Atsuko Okatsuka #TheIntruder HBO Max
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Thanks to Nicole Dewey for making our conversation with Susanna Hoffs happen! Such an honor to talk to Susanna about her excellent debut novel #ThisBirdHasFlown and her new album, #TheDeepEnd .
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Congratulations to Atsuko Okatsuka for winning the #GracieAward (@AllWomeninMedia) for her very funny very smart HBO Max special, #TheIntruder .
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.Susanna Hoffs: 'I say don't wait around for permission. Just dive in ... because if you wait for permission, you may never get it.' #ThisBirdHasFlown Little, Brown and Co #TheDeepEnd
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'For me, living in a rural town in the '90s, there was a kind of isolation that I think made you get weird if you wanted something that you couldn't have.' #KevinWilson #NowIsNottheTimetoPanic Ecco
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'And he ( #PeterAsher ) just shared that song with me and I just felt like I was floored by that song. I thought it was one of the most beautiful songs I'd ever heard.' Susanna Hoffs on Holly Humberstone's #DeepEnd .
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'Everything led me to this moment of feeling threatened in my own home that I was afraid even to call my home for the longest time. Because in the special, I joke that I am just renting, so it's not my home.' Atsuko Okatsuka HBO Max #TheIntruder
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'I thought, 'Oh, it's time, in this decade that we're in... and this time period that we're all living in, to maybe do a little gender flip here. And empower the ladies.'' Susanna Hoffs on covering The Rolling Stones'
#UnderMyThumb on new album, #TheDeepEnd .
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'It was quite a dramatic shift, but unexpectedly joyful, freeing, exhilarating experience to take on this lifelong dream of writing fiction and writing a novel....It was unexpectedly pleasurable.' Susanna Hoffs #ThisBirdHasFlown Little, Brown and Co
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Catch Japanese Breakfast TOMORROW (04/07) at 7pm! We’ll be at the Barrymore Theatre & doors open at 6pm 🎤📚