4.6 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2018
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Stephanie Wittels Wachs, sister of beloved comedy writer Harris Wittels (Parks and Recreation, Humblebrag) stops by the show to talk about Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss; writing the book in real time; the grief process; the manic investigative phase; feeling liberated by the realization that nothing means anything; loving an addict; anger; pregnancy; future-tripping; parenting a child with hearing loss; fighting to get Texas to cover hearing aids and cochlear implants and so much more. We also took your questions over Twitter and did a round of Just Me Or Everyone.
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0:00.0 | I was saying rose in, I was saying rose in as you knew that's friend. |
0:06.0 | I was saying, I was saying with a good touch that the rain. |
0:12.0 | I was saying rose in, we be good to dance again. |
0:17.0 | I was saying, rose in, I was saying to do that's friend. |
0:23.0 | Hey everyone, hi, hello, it's me, Alison Rosen. |
0:26.0 | Welcome to another episode of Alison Rosen, as you knew best friend. |
0:29.0 | I'm sitting here with Stephanie Whittles-Brox, author of Everything is Horrible and Wonderful, |
0:36.0 | a tragic comic memoir of genius, heroine love and loss. |
0:40.0 | It's about her brother, Harris Whittles, who was on my show years ago, who died of an overdose three years ago. |
0:47.0 | Yes. |
0:49.0 | The book is so, I just finished it this morning. |
0:54.0 | It is so beautiful, so well written, so vivid. |
0:59.0 | At the beginning I kept crying and I was reading it after my son was already asleep. |
1:04.0 | I was like, I wanted to go get him up out of the crib to hold him. |
1:09.0 | I thought I don't know how I'm going to get through reading this book because I'm bursting into tears so frequently. |
1:15.0 | But then I got to, it was weird how it sort of shifts that I got to a point where I remember literally thinking, |
1:20.0 | I don't want this to ever end. |
1:22.0 | And I think it's because I got, it was like, oh, I just enjoy being in the presence of your thoughts. |
1:29.0 | Oh wow. |
1:30.0 | Maybe you're the first person that's ever said that out of me. |
1:33.0 | That's very kind of you to say, thank you. |
1:35.0 | So you live in Houston. |
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