Summary of Mike Birbiglia's The New One

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I met my wife, Jen, at work. We would often make out on the promenade outside of her office, and her phone would drop out of her pocket mid-kiss. She was mortified.
#2 A pseudonym is a name that you use to publish your work that is different from your real name. Jen’s pseudonym is Allen Ginsberg, but she has never shared it with family or friends, which is maddening for me.
#3 I love my marriage. And I’m not saying it’s perfect. I think all marriages have an undercurrent of tension at all times because you have two people experiencing the same events at the same time, and then you have two completely different memories of the same event.
#4 I’m married to the Clark Kent of poetry, who has saved my best friend’s life and for many years shared with me the solidarity that we would never have children. I didn’t want to lose that.

Sujets

• Parenting

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 14 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822509221
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Mike Birbiglia's The New One
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I met my wife, Jen, at work. We would often make out on the promenade outside of her office, and her phone would drop out of her pocket mid-kiss. She was mortified.

#2

A pseudonym is a name that you use to publish your work that is different from your real name. Jen’s pseudonym is Allen Ginsberg, but she has never shared it with family or friends, which is maddening for me.

#3

I love my marriage. And I’m not saying it’s perfect. I think all marriages have an undercurrent of tension at all times because you have two people experiencing the same events at the same time, and then you have two completely different memories of the same event.

#4

I’m married to the Clark Kent of poetry, who has saved my best friend’s life and for many years shared with me the solidarity that we would never have children. I didn’t want to lose that.

#5

I have a long medical history. I had a malignant tumor in my bladder when I was nineteen. I was lucky.

#6

I had cancer, a life-threatening sleepwalking disorder, and wrote a book about it called Sleepwalk with Me. I even made a movie out of that, but just because you make a movie about something doesn’t mean it’s cured.

#7

I make a lot of jokes about my sleepwalking, but it is a very serious condition. There are people with this disorder who have, in rare instances, been known to kill the person they’re in bed with while remaining asleep. I don’t feel full most of the time.

#8

I don’t go to church anymore, but I still pray occasionally. I never pray when things are going well, because I believe that God is watching me masturbate.