Aline Brosh McKenna

But the second week cast, Meryl, I remember I was so astonished when David told me that I sat down on the sidewalk in Larchmont and start crying because I was like, oh, there's a big wave coming and I got to stay on this wave.

And so I just worked around the clock to make sure that I was putting in.

So that's why it was like Saturday morning, run to the Starbucks and sit there as long as you can sending in alts.

And I sent in

alts for a lot of stuff.

so tell us about this absolutely like and it's the formative it's the thing that got me the job because i told david about it when i first met him okay so i graduated from college my roommate magna cum laude magna cum laude indeed and um not summa though importantly oh is that above summa's above and my father was a furious

Because one of the girls I went to second grade with was Suma and he was real mad.

So I graduated.

My roommate was writing for the Harvard Lampoon.

I wasn't.

I was writing for the paper and directing plays.

Having graduated from Harvard and written for three months, we wrote a book proposal and sold it right away.

Felt like we were on a good run.

So all I wanted to do was be a New York magazine writer.

I grew up obsessively reading New York magazine.

That was my number one.

I wasn't as much of a New Yorker reader, but I always had a subscription to the New York Times, even in college, and I always read New York magazine.

And I just thought that was going to be the coolest thing ever.

So my roommate and co-writer, we started trying to get magazine jobs together because we'd written this book, which seemed good.

We could not get arrested anywhere.