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Jenny Slate, author of Little Weirds

You may "know" Jenny Slate from her new Netflix special, "Stage Fright," or as the creator of Marcel the Shell, or as the star of Obvious Child. But you don't really know Jenny Slate until you get bonked on the head by her absolutely singular writing style. To see the world through Jenny's eyes is to see it as though for the first time, shimmering with strangeness and possibility. As she will remind you, we live on an ancient ball that rotates around a bigger ball made up of lights and gasses that are science gasses, not farts (don't be immature). Heartbreak, confusion and misogyny stalk this blue-green sphere, yes, but it is also a place of wild delight and unconstrained vitality, a place where we can start living as soon as we are born, and we can be born at any time.

Week of November 23, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of November 23rd include SWORD OF KINGS, the 12th installment in Bernard Cornwell’s series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England; CARRIE FISHER: A Life on the Edge, in which Sheila Weller traces Carrie Fisher’s life from her Hollywood royalty roots to her untimely and shattering death after Christmas 2016; LITTLE WEIRDS, actress and stand-up comedian Jenny Slate’s quirky collection about love, heartbreak and being alive; and 36 RIGHTEOUS MEN by Steven Pressfield, a futuristic noir thriller that finds the fate of the world hanging in the balance, as two New York homicide detectives join forces with a rabbinical scholar and a renowned anthropologist to confront a murderer who won’t stop until he has killed everyone.