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🗓️ 4 September 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Zibby interviews Thurber Prize-winning author Harrison Scott Key about How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told, a hilarious and heartbreaking memoir about the hellscape of marriage and the mysteries of mercy. Harrison describes the moment his marriage exploded (when his wife revealed she was in love with his friend!) and the difficult path their relationship took thereafter. He also shares his views on marriage (we all marry the wrong people!), stories from his childhood in rural Mississippi, and his path to writing and humor.
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1:03.4 | Harrison Scott Key is the author of How to Stay Married, which if anyone who follows me on |
1:08.1 | Instagram knows, I have recommended this book like a hundred times. Okay, well, I don't know, maybe like three times, but I loved it and have been shouting it from the rooftops in many different venues. Harrison Scott Key is the author of How to Stay Married, Congratulations, Who Are You Again, and the World's Largest Man, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. His first TEDx talk went viral among a certain demographic. If you'd like Harrison to speak at your event, he will probably do it in exchange for money. Just ask him. Harrison's humor and nonfiction have appeared in the best American travel writing, Oxford American, outside, The New York Times, The Bitter Southerner, McSweeney's Internet Tenancy, Town and Country, The Mockingbird Salon, Savannah Magazine, Reader's Digest, Image, Southern Living, Gulf Coast, and Creative Nonfiction, as well as a number of magazines that don't pay you anything at all, not even a little. But it was cool, because people who work at magazines are mostly poor, and helping the poor is a priority for Harrison should he come under scrutiny. Harrison has lectured, talked, read, performed, etc. |
2:01.8 | around the world at book festivals, bookstores conferences for design, writing, religion, |
2:06.6 | medicine, real estate, and education, variety shows, radio shows, and universities, as well as |
2:11.6 | one retirement community whose members were perfectly courteous up until the end. He has also |
2:16.2 | performed stand-up comedy at venues around the U.S. |
2:18.5 | If you include three or four different cities to be around the U.S. |
2:23.0 | He holds an MFA in creative nonfiction and a Ph.D. in playwriting |
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