Episode 93: Amy Silverberg

Amy Silverberg is a comedian and writer based in Los Angeles. Her stand-up comedy has been featured on Comedy Central, Hulu, NPR, and Amazon Prime. Her short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, The Paris Review, Granta, and The New Yorker. She holds a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from USC, where she now teaches.

Prior to publication, Amy’s debut novel First Time, Long Time was hailed by Oprah Daily as “a funny, high-spirited novel…the book humorously describes a lesser-seen side of Los Angeles: the unglamorous neighborhood of Van Nuys, the humiliations of fame, the agony of trying—and failing—to be someone else, and the thrill of discovering yourself along the way.”

“Somebody is always going through something,” she writes in the novel, just published by Grand Central Publishing. “Somebody is always reading a book and finding himself there.”

Join us for a funny, thoughtful look at the ways Amy’s comedy informs her writing, the ways her writing fuels her comedy, and the many ways she finds herself in her work.

Learn more about Amy Silverberg:

• Website
• Instagram
• Threads 
• TikTok
• Twitter

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