It’s okay,” said Debbie. “You know, I used to be super-bummed, but the truth is you can get over anything with enough time. That was the other part of the idea behind the watch, the first part being the thing about you not having to look at your phone. The other part was so that you could remember that time was passing. For most things, really, the only thing to do is just let there be time.” 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. These tales are heartfelt and funny, a winning combo. Dazzled by the wit, you’ll be surprised when you start tearing up at the sincere turn.” — Read It Forward

this is dinner happening. this is the story that started turning it around for me. fun fact: i don't usually love dog-voiced stories, but this one made me smile and got me all soft in the heart. in a book filled with love stories, this one--about the waxing and waning of a human romance seen through the fuzzy filter of doggy-understanding -- this is the one that got me a little choked up. You can put to rest the fear that you were a blip in this other person's life, a footnote. What you did was important. You hurt somebody, and somebody hurt you.” Playlists containing Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg, read by Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Various Users who reposted Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg, read by Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Various you want to know what plays are like?" which is a bittersweet story about a family mess. bitter because it's terribly sad. sweet because it's beautifully written.

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There are two kinds of people, he thought: the people you don’t want to touch because you’re afraid you’re going to break them, and the people you don’t want to touch because you’re afraid they’ll break you.” 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

The normal reasons. Like, I love you and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. It’s all the dumb clichés about how even when I’m mad at you I love you and how every day the best part of it is waking up next to you. And it kills me that this is all the normal, typical people-in-love stuff, because I want to believe our love is special—that it’s bigger and more interesting than any love that anyone else has had before—but the heartbreaking truth is my love for you is so consistent and predictable and boring.” But if there's a silver lining here (and you're not sure there is one), it's the assurance that what you had, whatever it was, had weight. It made an impact.” By publishing your document, the content will be optimally indexed by Google via AI and sorted into the right category for over 500 million ePaper readers on YUMPU. In “We Men of Science,” a scientist named Yoni opens a door to an alternate dimension. He falls in love with a woman in the alternate dimension, but he feels that he should not act on this attraction, as Yoni is married and his wife is pregnant. In “Lies We Told Each Other (a partial list),” the story recounts lies told between two members of a dysfunctional relationship. And I thought about how, actually, if you wanted to, you could say the same thing about life. That life is terrifying and overwhelming and it can happen at any moment. And when you're confronted with life you can either be cowardly or you can be brave, but either way you're going to live.In “These Are Facts,” 16-year-old Heather goes on vacation with her parents in Mexico. Also joining them is Heather’s estranged half-brother West. Heather desperately tries to form a bond with West so that he will not leave them again. The story ends ambiguously. You’d already started dating Sean when Boris called, late, drunk, and asked if you wanted to go to Staten Island. You’d never been to Staten Island, and Boris had never been to Staten Island, and since Boris was about to move to Philadelphia, this seemed like as good a time as any to visit Staten Island. in that way that you love something when you’re at a place in your life when you’re ready to love something and there’s a thing there that you can love.”

Move across the country and hope the Sadness won’t find you, won’t follow you like a stray dog from coast to coast.” 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. It is often silly, superficial, childish, simple and almost never funny- despite it's aim and claim. And I imagined that if I were in some other, better universe, there'd be someone who could tell me, it's okay, or you'll get 'em next time, tiger. Someone would tell me that all the stupid things I'd done, all my mistakes, they didn't matter. This someone would say that, no matter what, she was proud of me, that I filled her heart with warmth, and that that's really the most you could hope for in life - to just for an instant make somebody else just a little bit happier. She would tell me that - guess what, - everything was going to be all right.” A young engaged couple forced to deal with interfering relatives dictating the appropriate number of ritual goat sacrifices for their wedding.We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we? Show me how to enable it Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg, read by Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Various a series of ten... what to call these? too long to be epigrams, not didactic enough to be aphorisms, too interconnected to be flash fiction, too bleak to be greeting cards. Giorgis: There’s a poem that came to mind a few times as I was reading the collection, by the Somali-British writer Warsan Shire, from her book Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth: “Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.” 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:

so you see - (not that you are still here to see) - now that i have finished reviewing this, i’ve already forgotten reviewing, let alone reading the earlier, less-satisfying stories, and i’m left with an overall glow of appreciation for this book. A Most Blessed and Auspicious Occasion – a hilarious hyperbolic satire of wedding culture, complete with goat sacrifices and a Shrieking Chorus And then the two of you sat on the steps of the cathedral for a very long time without saying anything. Sometimes you imagine DO NOT CALL HIM also not going there. You picture the two of you both not going there at the same time and not meeting each other outside on the sidewalk; you not taking the opportunity to tell him all the ways he wronged you, not explaining that even though you were over it now—so, so over it—you just wanted to make sure he didn’t try that shit again with the next girl, for her sake. Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory is a collection of stories by Raphael Bob-Waksberg.

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You and Eric looked at each other, in the shadow of that cathe­dral, and you saw Eric’s face fall, as you had often seen it fall, in that just-so-Eric way. another little bitty comedic interlude of a story. it’s that thing when you’re meeting someone for dinner but you’re hungry NOW and you shove whatever’s handy into your face to tide you over and it’s not that you don’t enjoy the eating of it but you’re really ready for dinner to happen. i wanted to like this a lot more than i actually did. i think the only story i genuinely enjoyed was the last one. other than that, the stories were okay. they had their standout moments, but as a whole, they werent particularly standout in themselves. Ho sempre delle emozioni contrastanti sulle raccolte di racconti. Eh che azzeccarle è difficile, è dura trovare delle raccolte equilibrate. Quelle secondo me che riescono meglio sono quelle che condividono un immaginario comune, o comunque ci portano in un universo condiviso da tutte le storie, ma che allo stesso tempo non ci sia troppa discrepanza tra queste (magari qualcuna molto bella, e altre molto semplici o di poco conto). Per darvi un’idea, per me la Boutique del Mistero e Storie Della Tua Vita di Ted Chiang sono in questo senso delle ottime opere.