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Simon Rich is the author of New Teeth Stories. He has written for Saturday Night Live, Pixar, and The Simpsons. He is the

creator and showrunner of Man Seeking Woman on FXX, Miracle Worker on TBS, which he

based on his books. He's also a frequent contributor to the New Yorker. Welcome, Simon.

Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books. Thanks so much for having me.

Great to be here. I really loved your short story collection. And at times, I laughed out loud.

And when I read the New York Times review of your book and I was like, I felt the same way.

That was so funny. I laughed out

loud. So it is really, it's really nice when a book can make you do that after a long day. So thank you for that.

Thanks for saying that. I really appreciate it. So tell me about how this book sort of came to be. Why did you start writing these stories? How did you pick the ones you included in the collection?

You know, all that good stuff. Well, I really was trying to write about my kids. I have two kids.

I have a four-year-old and a seventh-month-old. And it was really kind of out of sympathy towards what

they're going through that a lot of these stories originated. Like there's a story in the book

called The Big Nap,

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