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Maddox Pennington sat down with Puss and Kooch to talk about writing a memoir, their experience in the comedy grind, the importance of truth and inclusiveness in comedy, and their dream to be a guest on another cool podcast.
Maddox Pennington on Heavy Flo with Puss and Kooch
The following interview has been edited for length and clarity. To hear everything Maddox has to say, listen to their podcast episode.
Writing and publishing a memoir: a pretty cool thing to do
I was in grad school, and I wrote a short essay about my life growing up reading the Brontës. A workshop group told me I needed to actually expand on all the information in the essay. So I kept writing, and it was 60 pages, and then 120 pages. Then my professor told me it wasn’t an essay anymore. So it just sort of took shape, and I’m proud of it.
But it’s very complicated because I just had to put “girl” in the title. And now I’m sort of in this trans-masc transition phase. It’s very weird. I want to write to Daniel Mallory Ortberg and ask, “How do you get over having the wrong name on this piece?” It’s a memoir. My life is supposed to be in there, and I left out this hugely important part.
So it’s complicated. But it’s out there. I’m proud of it, and everyone should buy it. The memoir is called A Girl Walks Into a Book: What the Brontës Taught Me about Life, Love, and Women’s Work. And I was a girl when I walked into the book. It doesn’t say what I was when I walked out of it.
Have you written a memoir? Because Maddox Pennington has.
The memoir traces my life alongside the Brontë sisters’ lives. I tackle each of their books and movie adaptations and the terrible relationships I was having in New York in my 20s, as one does. I’m proud of it, and everyone should buy it.
It just feels uncomfortable to try to still promote it. My mom would love it if I was still doing book events. I did 12 of them when the memoir came out, and it’s over. I know how publishing works. The life cycle ends. So it’s just a weird thing I did, a good thing. I’m proud of most of it
It’s the first memoir.
There’s definitely going to have to be a part two because I spent a lot of the book chasing an unavailable man who’s 10 years older than me. At the end of the book, I married him, and the marriage was ending.
In two weeks in 2017, I quit my day job, left my marriage, the book came out,
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Maddox Pennington sat down with Puss and Kooch to talk about writing a memoir, their experience in the comedy grind, the importance of truth and inclusiveness in comedy, and their dream to be a guest on another cool podcast.
Maddox Pennington on Heavy Flo with Puss and Kooch
The following interview has been edited for length and clarity. To hear everything Maddox has to say, listen to their podcast episode.
Writing and publishing a memoir: a pretty cool thing to do
I was in grad school, and I wrote a short essay about my life growing up reading the Brontës. A workshop group told me I needed to actually expand on all the information in the essay. So I kept writing, and it was 60 pages, and then 120 pages. Then my professor told me it wasn’t an essay anymore. So it just sort of took shape, and I’m proud of it.
But it’s very complicated because I just had to put “girl” in the title. And now I’m sort of in this trans-masc transition phase. It’s very weird. I want to write to Daniel Mallory Ortberg and ask, “How do you get over having the wrong name on this piece?” It’s a memoir. My life is supposed to be in there, and I left out this hugely important part.
So it’s complicated. But it’s out there. I’m proud of it, and everyone should buy it. The memoir is called A Girl Walks Into a Book: What the Brontës Taught Me about Life, Love, and Women’s Work. And I was a girl when I walked into the book. It doesn’t say what I was when I walked out of it.
Have you written a memoir? Because Maddox Pennington has.
The memoir traces my life alongside the Brontë sisters’ lives. I tackle each of their books and movie adaptations and the terrible relationships I was having in New York in my 20s, as one does. I’m proud of it, and everyone should buy it.
It just feels uncomfortable to try to still promote it. My mom would love it if I was still doing book events. I did 12 of them when the memoir came out, and it’s over. I know how publishing works. The life cycle ends. So it’s just a weird thing I did, a good thing. I’m proud of most of it
It’s the first memoir.
There’s definitely going to have to be a part two because I spent a lot of the book chasing an unavailable man who’s 10 years older than me. At the end of the book, I married him, and the marriage was ending.
In two weeks in 2017, I quit my day job, left my marriage, the book came out,