Lovett or Leave It

First up, Pennywise from It, Tim Curry edition. Would you fuck this clown?

But didn't you write, Hank Zipzer. Hank Zipzer, 28 novels about a little boy, uh, me.

I don't view this book as therapy. So it like, it's a reflection of therapy.

I was remembering like my parents are alive. I must not say things that their friends will take and then drive into them,

It wasn't like, Oh my God, what have I done? You know, I was aware of what I was doing.

It's called Joyful Recollections of Trauma, not just recollections of trauma.

I wrote things when I was angry. I wrote things that I was like, yeah. And then I'd read it back. I'm like, do I want it? It's forever out there. It's locked in amber.

You have a new memoir. I do. Yeah. It's called a Joyful Recollections of Trauma.

And it was a New York times bestseller.

I got to at least say it every single time I talk about my book.

I don't view this book as therapy. So it like, it's a reflection of therapy.

It was actually something that I felt like empowered to write.

I'm reading this book, The Demon of Unrest by Eric. Yes, you've brought up one million times. I know. We always know what you're reading. Well, yeah.

And so I'm reading this book, The Demon of Unrest, which just came out recently, I believe by Eric Larson.

And it's about Fort Sumter and the lead up to Fort Sumter and what happened right after.

And the way in which basically right-wing propaganda is convincing the South that the North is going to, that like, even though Lincoln has not said he will abolish slavery, that these propagandists are basically trying to kind of rile everyone up into this conflict.

Jamie's incredible book, *Raw Dog*, is out now.

it's the incredible Jamie Loftus, author of the upcoming book Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

her book Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs comes out on May 23rd, very exciting

I have read true crime all my life, since finding In Cold Blood at a used bookstore when I was about nine and reading it, not so secretly.

I'm gonna guess In Cold Blood.

He has It.

Like Stephen King's It, but that is the same It.

He is Stephen King's It.

It's a horror film based on a book by Stephen King It's about a clown that kind of makes sense I don't really I've watched It It's an evil clown

I think he represents a darkness in the human soul and maybe capItalism I don't know

It was actually like the most posItive thing that most Americans experienced last weekend

Yeah Everyone wanted a breath of fresh air so they went to watch scary clowns murder people

I think it does relate to history. I can't believe that the Dan Brown novels aren't real.

I think enough time has passed. Hey, if you're listening and you don't want to be spoiled for The Da Vinci Code, now is the time to crash your car.

JK. But the spawn of Jesus Christ exists and is the Holy Grail. What?

I dropped out by the time Inferno came. Hello.

Symbology is not real. It's a made up thing from The Da Vinci Code.

I don't read it, is that thing, does that thing have a lot of adverbs?

Oh, she loves adverbs, they're all over those books.

I grew just reading the Harry Potter... But it was part of growth.

I really learned from Harry Potter that human beings come from immutable groups and those groups are really, really important. And we should really divide children into groups when they're small.

Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road, classic Rhodes Scholar.

Cirrus and Cordelia are reading Moby Dick to us.

Cirrus and Cordelia are reading Moby Dick to us.

Mobility exists both as a story about climate in the U.S., but also a broader story about how how the world is facing climate change, how a kind of corporate structure that is international is trying to avoid facing up to climate change.

And I think that like it is a book that grapples with personal responsibility to an enormous problem that we feel like the way in which people rationalize their connection to a broken system.

And I think that that's something that is like the left grapples with, I think more than the right does. But I think you see it in everything from fights about banning straws at Starbucks all the way up to, you know, what is all the way up to like what protests are happening like on college campuses.

Yeah, that's such a great point.

I think when people hear things like recently, like French people did a poll where they all agreed that people should have like four flights in their life. That doesn't like maybe make a lot of people think like, yes, I want to join onto this movement.

Mobility exists both as a story about climate in the U.S., but also a broader story about how how the world is facing climate change, how a kind of corporate structure that is international is trying to avoid facing up to climate change.

And I think that like it is a book that grapples with personal responsibility to an enormous problem that we feel like the way in which people rationalize their connection to a broken system.

I think that that's something that is like the left grapples with, I think more than the right does. But I think you see it in everything from fights about banning straws at Starbucks all the way up to, you know, what is all the way up to like what protests are happening like on college campuses.

Mobility is an audio book. You can ear-read it.

You should get it as an audio book. Audio books are where you do your best ear-reading. Yes. But you mis-ear-read what I was saying. Yes.

Well, it's funny because that's what the Mary Trump book is about in a lot of ways but I find it like, apparently it sold a lot of copies. I'm very happy for anybody who wants to read it.

Like he's still inside the bank and Mary Trump is outside with a bullhorn yelling, his father was withholding. They used the N word. And it's like, well, we could talk about that when he's fucking in shackles. We can't do that right now. He's still doing crime.

But then again, I didn't write the art of the deal. Neither did he.

but again neither Trump nor I wrote the art of the deal

My family, his books were on the shelf. There was The Art of the Deal, there were the books about him, there was Trump.

The Breakfast at Tiffany's tonal switch from the rest of the movie... It's wild. Into that racist caricature is wild.

He is though, you know, again, a top 10 Asian actor. So in a lot of ways.

Any Breakfast at Tiffany's paraphernalia?

No, there was no Breakfast at Tiffany's stuff.

The Notebook Review: A Musical Tearjerker, or Just All Wet

Watch The Notebook today. Hey, stop what you're doing. Watching this. Well, if really it was brought to you by the 2003 movie The Notebook.

I don't know when it came out.

In spirit.

A bomb in these post 9-11 years, The Notebook.

That's roughly right, I don't even remember what, what must be, is it this, what war is it? Was it World War II?

Something that I have wanted to talk about now you all know To Kill a Mockingbird boo Radley and Atticus Finch and Scout story about good overcoming adversity overcoming the system it's been around for quite some time childhood classic has been stage play for a very long time you may have also heard that Aaron Sorkin wrote a version of To Kill a Mockingbird that is currently being staged on Broadway starring I believe Jeff Daniels in the role of Atticus Finch

the producers of this production on Broadway has shut down community productions of the other To Kill a Mockingbird the old To Kill a Mockingbird play and there was this New York Times story in which this amateur actor who also runs the Playhouse had to tell Scout that she didn't get to be Scout anymore because the New York producers of To Kill a Mockingbird decided to shut down the Dayton Ohio production and how ironic is this they thought they had a good case but they were afraid to fight him in court they were afraid to take their chances in court to win their righteous cause to perform To Kill a Mockingbird

but don't worry there was a compromise and the compromise is some of these local groups they can still do To Kill a Mockingbird but they can only do the Aaron Sorkin version so basically because New York City has a Broadway production of To Kill a Mockingbird Scout in Dayton the little girl doing the amateur production has to learn a new version of the play that that is the compromise it is fucking insane

why do they care what happens at the local Dayton production of To Kill a Mockingbird just let them do the other version who gives a shit sorry guys this Broadway production starring Jeff Daniels has to shut down we're facing too much competition in Dubuque

Some shenanigans involving To Kill a Mockingbird

Barbara Streisand has finished her long-awaited memoir My Name is Barbara which was reportedly 1040 pages long. The book will be translated and into over a dozen languages including emoji for Lea Michele.

In more diva news Barbara Streisand has finished her long-awaited memoir My Name is Barbara which was reportedly 1040 pages long. The book will be translated and into over a dozen languages including emoji for Lea Michele.

I once listened to If I did it by OJ Simpson. I don't know if anybody else has had the pleasure.

But the audio book begins with an hour preface from Ron Goldman's sister because they took the rights of the book after the civil trial when they won the civil trial because he declared bankruptcy and there was no money to be had.

And so like it's an hour of her crying not only over her dead brother but over the fact that people now like berate them on the street accusing them of trying to capitalize off of their dead sibling's name.

And so like that's the level of money I feel like these Sandy Hook families are going to get is just like cartoonish.

And so they got a black dude, an older black gentleman to do OJ voice. And it is the funniest choice they could have made despite because it is an hour of the sister crying.

That's why that book's coming out by cancer called "If I Did It".

I get picture watching Star Wars. I get picture Sarah Lazarus just sitting down and reading Middlemarch.

I get picture watching Star Wars. I get picture Sarah Lazarus just sitting down and reading Middlemarch.