Le altre sono o storie simil Lundini, oppure articolate bene ma che finiscono in una specie di "vorrei ma non posso".

Showcases Bob-Waksberg’s talent for conjuring fantastical scenarios and writing about them with a straight face. . . . Human relationships, he seems to be saying, are weirder than anything else our imaginations can come up with.” —NPR Lunch with the Person Who Dumped You” lists hypothetical scenarios between two people who used to date. In all of the scenarios, there is the sense of lingering tension between the two people. PDF / EPUB File Name: Someone_Who_Will_Love_You_in_All_Your_Dama_-_Raphael_Bob-Waksberg.pdf, Someone_Who_Will_Love_You_in_All_Your_Dama_-_Raphael_Bob-Waksberg.epubThe collection’s opening story, for example, begins with a fairly mundane setting: A first date takes a curious turn when a woman is offered salted circus cashews by her suitor. Bob-Waksberg heightens the tension slowly. The story goes on to detail the message written on the cashew can, which reveals the woman’s ambivalence—in the past, she’s encountered a series of cans filled with snakes. It’s an absurd premise, to be sure, but the trepidation resonates. The fine print on the can’s label ends the story: “This time is different; I promise you it’s different. Why would I lie to you? Why would I want to hurt you? This time there is no snake waiting. This time things are going to be wonderful.” Equally at home with the surreal and the painfully relatable (and both at once), Bob-Waksberg delivers a killer combination of humor, romance, whimsy, cultural commentary, and crushing emotional vulnerability. Perhaps, also, my standards are too high. I love short stories, and I read a lot of them. I particularly love Keret, Kishon, and Murakami's various collections of shorts. It turns out making an asshole a president just means you end up with an asshole president. Probably could’ve guessed that–being president doesn’t change you, not really; it just brings out more of the you that you already are.”

These stories] keep us engaged and on our toes. With love, your Nana.” —Shirley Bob, author’s grandmother Salted Circus Cashews, Swear to God – a short but oddly brilliant reflection on the difficulty and complexity of trusting someone when entering a new relationship…told through the metaphor of a can of cashews that may or may not have a spring-snake-toy inside. This was a perfect start to the collection and basically dissolved any uncertainty I felt about whether this would be a good read. The Average of All Possible Things – when an average girl with an average life and an average job has a rough breakup, but admitting things aren’t quite average is a little too hard Perhaps my expectations for this particular book were too high -- in his publicity event, Bob-Waksberg talked confidently (if sarcastically) about how he was a good writer. And I'd already read a lot of nice things about it. i don’t have any feelings about this one, but i will say that he manages his rhyme scheme and scansion much better than lang leav ever has.This is better read than explained so I just suggest you read this if you like romance and dark humor that makes you believe a little more in the real type of love and everything that comes with loving people. Very highly recommended. ↢ yes, this one YEEEEESSSSSSSS!! sooo, this one maybe hit a little too close to home. not necessarily the details, but the feels. like lucinda, i am regular, and average, and boring, and fine. and my life and opportunities and expectations? So then the play starts and the first thing that happens is two ladies burst into the hotel room, one after another. These ladies are supposed to be sisters, probably, because when plays aren't about hookers, ninety percent of the time they're about sisters. But, of course, because it's a play, these sisters look nothing alike. For starters, one of them's like fifty and the other one's like twenty, because apparently when you're hiring people for plays, it's impossible to find two women who are about the same age. Bob-Waksberg: Guilt? Well, I mean, I’m Jewish. [ Laughs] As is the character in that story, actually. I think he’s the only explicitly Jewish character in the book, and he’s the most guilty.

Up-and-Comers – superheroes in a band, lots of drinking, dysfunctional friendships, poor relationship choices…in other words, a bizarre and fascinating story that takes a totally absurd premise to explore a wide variety of important ideas I try to counter that a little bit in my work or suggest that, no, you cannot depend on a person to make you happy. A person can be a part of that and should be. If a person is making you unhappy, that is a bad situation. But I don’t want to suggest the problem is just that you need to find a better person.Not every story in the collection ends so hopefully, but Bob-Waksberg still conveys a tenuous reverence for love and those who continue to seek it even in the face of disappointment. He traces the tenor of both the show and the new book to many early inspirations: among them, the author David Rakoff’s Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel; Jonathan Safran Foer’s “ A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease”; Katherine Heiny’s “ How to Give the Wrong Impression”; Sarah Manguso’s 300 Arguments; and the work of George Saunders. I’m kind of a sweet and salty kind of guy. That’s always been my writing—a little bit of both. But as I’ve gotten older, I have gotten less cynical. There was a long time where I was like, I’m gonna be single forever. Relationships are doomed to fail. Nobody can really know you … ‘We live alone in the house of the heart.’ That’s Brian Doyle [who famously considered the capacity of humans to love], another influence. The Poem” focuses on a couple—Fernando and Wendy. They begin dating after Wendy breaks off her engagement to someone else. Wendy sees the relationship as casual, but Fernando has very strong feelings for Wendy. On Valentine’s Day, Fernando gives Wendy a poem that he wrote for her. Wendy, now realizing how strong Fernando’s feelings for her are, decides to end the relationship. More of the You That You Already Are – another case of the absurd premise with serious underpinnings: a guy who plays Chester A. Arthur at a theme park based on US presidents, whose park is being taken over by some misguided scientists, but who also has a sister with cancer who he cares very deeply about Ahead of his book’s June release, The Atlantic spoke with Bob-Waksberg about the book, writing across different formats, and the role art plays in shaping expectations about love and romance. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Perhaps a better me would have done the right thing and left, or a worse me wouldn’t have worried about it, just indulged in the transgression, but I am only as good as I am, and I could only do what the person as good as I am could do. Here, have an overly-long excerpt from "You Want to Know What Plays Are Like?", which I absolutely read in Will Arnett's voice before I realized the speaker was a woman: Rules for Taboo – when game night is both a literal poor choice and a metaphor for poor real-life choicesBob-Waksberg: The first big story in the collection is the one about the people getting married. That to me is such a happy story. It’s about this couple that clearly loves each other and works together and the power that this man feels for this woman even in spite of their challenges. It’s maybe more typically what you would expect out of a book of stories about love. And I wanted to put that in because I do want that feeling to exist in my book and not feel like, Oh, this is a book of people complaining about how hard love is. Giorgis: How did you think about writing about guilt, especially in stories such as “We Men of Science,” which follows a man who transgresses in a series of small ways that ultimately prove disastrous?