Episode 719: Katherine Heiny - Games and Rituals
The beloved author of Early Morning Riser brings us glittering stories of love\u2014friendships formed at the airport bar, ex-husbands with benefits, mothers of suspiciously sweet teenagers, ill-advised trysts\u2014in all its forms, both ridiculous and sublime.
The games and rituals performed by Katherine Heiny\u2019s characters range from mischievous to tender: In \u201cBridesmaid, Revisited,\u201d Marlee, suffering from a laundry and life crisis, wears a massive bridesmaid\u2019s dress to work. In \u201cTwist and Shout,\u201d Erica\u2019s elderly father mistakes his four-thousand-dollar hearing aid for a cashew and eats it. In \u201cTurn Back, Turn Back,\u201d a bedtime story coupled with a receipt for a Starbucks babyccino reveal a struggling actor\u2019s deception. And in \u201c561,\u201d Charlene pays the true price of infidelity and is forced to help her husband\u2019s ex-wife move out of the family home. (\u201cIt\u2019s like you\u2019re North Korea and South Korea . . . But would North Korea help South Korea move?\u201d)\xa0
Katherine Heiny, one of our most celebrated writers, our bard of waking up in the wrong bed, wearing the wrong shoes, running late for the wrong job, but loved by the right people, has delivered a collection of glorious humour and immense kindness.
KATHERINE HEINY is the author of Early Morning Riser, Standard Deviation, and Single, Carefree, Mellow, and her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and many other magazines.\xa0
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