How do you balance the outrageously funny with dark serious material?

Amy Schumer talks about that challenge and more when she joins us to talk about her

memoir, The Girl with the Lower Back tattoo.

I think I wasn't so much pain with what was going on with my family and I felt very

helpless and I know where else to turn.

What does the process of creating poetry look like?

My colleagues Greg Cole's and Lovia Gryarché will join us to talk about this week's

poetry issue.

Alexander Alter will give us an update from the literary world.

Plus we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading.

This is Inside the New York Times Booker View.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Amy Schumer joins us now and she is not only Amy Schumer but she is also the author of

The Girl with the Lower Back tattoo which is now out in paperback.

Amy thank you so much for being here.

Thank you so much for having me.

So let's talk.

Let's scroll back a year to when this is coming out in Hardcover and just talk about

the backstory of that's like no pun intended but the backstory to this book.

How did this come about?

How did you decide to write a book?

Much like David Starr's I also kept journal my whole life and so it kind of started with

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