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How to Laugh When You're Depressed! (ft. Yaseen Kader)
WIT LIT: the funny books podcast
English - November 11, 2019 08:16 - 26 minutes - 48.7 MBBooks Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Comedy researcher Yaseen recommends two Lucy Ellmann novels — Sweet Desserts and Varying Degrees of Hopelessness — for their dark humour, catastophising characters, and failing relationships. Oh, and their brevity. Yes, the famous brevity of that novelist who would, about a week after this was recorded, be shortlisted for the Booker Prize with Ducks, Newburyport… her 1000-page epic.
CW/TW: depression, eating disorders, attempted suicide - but it IS gentle and funny I promise.
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BOOKS MENTIONED
- Sweet Desserts, and Varying Degrees of Hopelessness by Lucy Ellman - Sad Today, and The Pisces by Melissa Broder
Bridget Jones’ Diary, by Helen Fielding (again)
A side-note in Hannah Gadsby’s stand-up show 'Nannette'
Those bizarre dead baby jokes from Facebook a decade or so ago
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Stay silly,
Lily