Hello worms!
First of all I would like to say, thank you for subscribing we are fighting tooth and nail with our struggles with consistency and insecurity to make this a weekly newsletter. Wanting to write a weekly substack that’s more than “5 Things I Saw at Sephora” is a gift and a curse, one that I hope will ultimately pay off (although not monetarily because there’s a lot of money in listing thing you see at Sephora.) But alas, instead I humbly offer you the first of four installments of a new project we’ve been working on: Memoir Practice.
Our goal with MP was to develop a new style of celebrity interviewing that uses the skills we’ve honed reading memoirs but also give audiences something they deserve: a lil pushback. I watch late night shows just agog at how boring celebrities are allowed to be. If you want to be a universally beloved tastemaker and millionaire, once in a while someone should tell you you sound ridiculous.
It also draws from one of our larger memoir-writing theories, which is that even if you use a ghost writer, a publicist, gmail sentence prediction, the stories you choose to tell about yourself are revealing. You can cherry pick from the surface, polish them to moral perfection, but there will be a narrative that shines through. How we want to be perceived is unique to each of us, and just as telling as any other moments.
I hope you like it, and as it is the first iteration, for once in our GD lives we’re actually quite open to feedback for the coming seasons. Also, the star of ep 1 is Fumi Abe a comedian I met the first few weeks of my comedy journey and someone I can’t say enough good things about! He’s doing an hour at the Bell House in Brooklyn May 21, please buy tix if you’re interested!