Sad Me of the Past Podcast
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Welcome to SAD ME OF THE PAST, the podcast where if you're OK with it, then we're OK with it too. On this episode, we have bestselling author Curtis Sittenfeld in the studio! We can't believe it! Lauren was very nervous! Curtis talks with us about the perils of boarding school, getting good luck from a used car, how her family really feels about her writing, and her new short story collection Show Don’t Tell. For her piece from the past, Curtis shares a short story she wrote in high school that has a surprising twist (and continues to hold a special place in the “Best of Curtis Sittenfeld” as selected by her mother).
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Curtis Sittenfeld is the bestselling author of seven novels: Prep, The Man of My Dreams, American Wife, Sisterland, Eligible, Rodham, and Romantic Comedy, which was picked for Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club. Her first story collection, You Think It, I’ll Say It, was published in 2018 and also picked for Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club. Show Don’t Tell is her second story collection. Her books have been selected by The New York Times, Time, Entertainment Weekly, and People for their “Ten Best Books of the Year” lists, optioned for television and film, and translated into thirty languages. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Esquire, and in the Best American Short Stories anthology, of which she was the 2020 guest editor. Her non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times, Time, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, Slate, and on “This American Life.” A graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Curtis has appeared as a guest on NPR’s “Fresh Air,” CBS’s “Early Show,” and PBS’s Newshour; five times been a Jeopardy! answer, and once been a Word Search puzzle.
Links
- Buy the book: Show Don’t Tell
- Read the short story Show Don't Tell in The New Yorker
- Curtis Sittenfeld website
Music: Sailing Away by HoliznaCC0, free for use under a Creative Commons license.
