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Merrill Markoe is on the show. She has a new book and you should know who she is, really. Best known for working on Letterman, making up stuff like Stupid Pet Tricks, she’s written 13 books. I talk too much but I learn stuff too. It’s so good.
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NOTES:
Writing the Unthinkable with Lynda Barry – fb link
Merrill Markoe on The Daily Show
Tony Randall Wisdom from Pillow Talk
Dragon Tattoo… safe space..yet… my blog
What Merrill is Reading
--oddly enough, Barry also had a bad breakup with Ira Glass. True gossip, but only important beyond their lives because they continue to be so prominent, Barry doing good work and Glass promoting David Sedaris, who unlike his sister very rarely strikes me as funny. (Though I get the same anguish vibes off both Sedarises.) Though Robert Benchley is Indeed very funny (did some acting as well...he was in that version of THE TWELVE CHAIRS with Fred Allen called IT'S IN THE BAG, for odd citation)...Nathaniel B, his son, and Peter B., Nat's son, seemed both to find likely and unlikely ways to carry on the family authorial tradition, Nathaniel with mildly satiric novels, Peter with JAWS and THE DEEP and such. Stephen Leacock, anyone? Jean Kerr?
--Barry's stuff can be disturbing, though often is more wistful...Phoebe Gloeckner, speaking of women dealing with and triumphing over abuse, can be even more disturbing and less wistful...but all the TWISTED SISTERS and WIMMEN'S COMIX crowd are worth looking into at least a bit.
A MUCH better interview than at least one other with Markoe I can recall...and hope you're home and resting up from the last road trip...only working, say, one or two shows a night at one venue, for example...