In addition, her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post Magazine, Esquire, and The Best American Short Stories, for which she has also been the guest editor. Her books have been translated into thirty languages. Curtis Sittenfeld is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels, including Rodham, Eligible, Prep, American Wife, and Sisterland, as well as the collection You Think It, I'll Say It. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, and Vanity Fair, and on public radio's This American Life. The Danny Horst Rule asserts that while an ordinary male comic can date a female 10, it never works the other way around.Curtis Sittenfeld is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels, including Rodham, Eligible, Prep, American Wife, and Sisterland, as well as the collection You Think It, I'll Say It. Sally Milz, a writer on “TNO,” is pitching a sketch called “The Danny Horst Rule.” Horst is one of her fellow writers and he has been having a very public romance with a beautiful, volatile actress named Annabel. The reason you need to know this is because the meet-cute in Sittenfeld’s latest, “Romantic Comedy,” relies on it. The examples are Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande, followed by Kim Kardashian Colin Jost and Scarlett Johansson Dave McCary and Emma Stone. It’s now become a thing when a talented but not super-hot comedian dates a gorgeous female star.
If you’re not a connoisseur of comedy and celebrity gossip, there’s something you might not know. Here, the reality is “Saturday Night Live,” reimagined as “TNO,” “The Night Owls.” It’s run by Nigel, not Lorne, and “Weekend Update” is called “News Desk,” 30 Rock is called 66, and most of the details - the pitch meetings, the table reads, the run-throughs, the 11:30 airtime - seem to be modeled directly on the many “SNL” memoirs that Sittenfeld said she read as research for this project. I am a big fan of Curtis Sittenfeld, and particularly love her reality-adjacent work - riffing on Hillary Clinton in “Rodham,” Laura Bush in “American Wife,” and on “Pride and Prejudice” in “Eligible.” OK, perhaps “Pride and Prejudice” is not an example of reality, but “Eligible” is an example of how much fun Sittenfeld has playing with existing characters and story structures.
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