{"id":3457,"date":"2014-05-30T00:26:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T04:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/?p=3457"},"modified":"2014-05-30T18:25:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T22:25:51","slug":"life-stories-73-annabelle-gurwitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/30\/life-stories-73-annabelle-gurwitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Stories #73: Annabelle Gurwitch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’ve known Annabelle Gurwitch<\/a> for years, so I was delighted to have her as a guest on Life Stories<\/I> to talk about her new collection of personal essays, I See You Made an Effort<\/i><\/a>, when she came to New York on her book tour. It’s a wonderful series of reflections on turning 50, from humorous interludes like accompanying her teenage son to a rock concert to more serious stories like a gathering of women who come together to help a dying friend with an assisted suicide. Annabelle also opens up about her own family past in more detail than she’s ever shared in previous books, and, as she said during our conversation, “Luckily, there’s no money that I can be disinherited from.”<\/p>\n

As a friend, I’m hugely biased in Annabelle’s favor, but I loved this book—both as a reading experience and as a dramatic monologue that I saw her workshop earlier this year—and I’m thrilled that it’s become a New York Times<\/i> bestseller. If you haven’t picked it up yet, I hope this episode will convince you to give it a try.<\/p>\n

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I’ve known Annabelle Gurwitch for years, and one of the things I’ve always loved about her writing is the ways she’s able to find things in her personal experience that we can all identify with, and I See You Made an Effort is no exception. It’s a collection of essays about life at “the edge of 50” that touches upon health concerns, beauty anxieties, family turbulence, and the increasing realization that you’re just not the young person you’d gotten used to seeing yourself as anymore. I’m hugely biased in her favor, but Annabelle’s writing is funny and heartwarming and I’m sure listening to her talk will leave you feeling much the same way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[799,800,132,305],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3457"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3465,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions\/3465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}