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Now in Comedy
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First, the not-so-funny news: We will be pausing the comedy newsletter (for the near future, at least), so this edition will be our last for a while. I first started writing this newsletter in 2018, when I was 24, and that feels like it couldn’t have been more than just a couple of years ago. I turned 30 last week and I gotta say, I’m taking it pretty well given that I spent the past year spiraling about it. The fact that I’m no longer the youngest editor on this team really messes with my idea of time.
It’s been a good run and I’ve had a lot of fun sharing my nonsense anecdotes with you about squirrels in my ceiling or how I hate that first “r” February. But it’s all good! There are plenty of other great newsletters from my colleagues, like Tricia’s fiction newsletter or Alanna’s memoir one. Not to mention the Weekly Sound Off, which comes to you every Friday afternoon and is full of fun, offbeat audio and entertainment stories. It’s been real, guys! I’ll see you when I see you.
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Best of the year (so far)
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We obviously spend a whole lot of time talking and thinking about audiobooks around here, but when it comes to talking the best of the year, we take it to a whole other level. While we’re still working on our year-end list, check out some of the listens we think are the best of this year, so far.
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It’s time again for election cake
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Back in May, I had the chance to speak with author, journalist, and humorist A.J. Jacobs about his newest book, The Year of Living Constitutionally, in which he documents the year he spent living by the word of the US Constitution to a T. From walking around the Upper West Side carrying a musket to offering to quarter soldiers in his own home, the man went for it.
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Comedy legend Dan Aykroyd and the late John Belushi left their footprint on American pop culture forever when they created the characters known as The Blues Brothers. Almost 50 years later, Aykroyd is revisiting the story of how it all came to be in the new Audible Original audio documentary, Blues Brothers: The Arc of Gratitude. My colleague Alanna had the chance to ask him a few questions about it.
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