Bonus: Meg Wolitzer Talks to Patricia Marx

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🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus conversation, host Meg Wolitzer talks to friend and New Yorker humorist Patricia Marx about her story “Singin’ in the Acid Rain,” and writing funny.

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0:00.0	Hi, Patty. So glad to be talking to you today.
0:03.4	Hi, Meg. Before we start or we are starting,
0:06.7	are we pretending that we don't know each other and that we don't talk all the time?
0:11.5	Am I gonna call you Miss Wallitzer?
0:14.6	Patricia.
0:16.0	Patricia.
0:17.1	I love your work in the New Yorker.
0:19.1	I'm a fan.
0:21.2	I actually am a super fan.
0:23.6	No, I think we're gonna come clean right now and say,
0:26.4	I'm really glad to be talking to you today.
0:28.6	Why is today different from any other day?
0:30.7	We talk to each other all the time.
0:33.2	And we will do a review of this afterward.
0:35.4	I promise.
0:36.4	Yes, absolutely.
0:38.0	And reenactment and maybe an interpretive dance perhaps, right?
0:42.0	Okay, go ahead.
0:43.2	So you are indeed one of the funniest people I know.
0:46.3	And I was wondering when did you realize that,
0:49.6	you know, the apocalypse destruction of the earth
0:52.1	was right for the Patricia Marks humor treatment?
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