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2 days agoConstance Debre: "Literature Shows We're Not Alone in Our Loneliness"
The novelist's life is an anguished, solitary, necessary quest born from personal struggle and radical life change.
Is This Thing On? is much more about a relationship than it is about comedy, which is probably a good thing, given how difficult it is to make movies about stand-up. Fictional comics on screen tend to skew toward being tortured truth-tellers or delusional sociopaths or both, but Alex Novak, played by Will Arnett, is neither. He's a finance guy who recently split from his wife of 20 years, and who stumbles into an open mic night on a whim
The Real Housewives franchise captures a specific sort of midlife reinvention, showcasing women navigating divorce, grief, success, self-discovery, and the pursuit of fame.