Maria Semple
speaker
519 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 26 Jun
Maria Semple’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I just thought, oh, my God, how am I going to make this work?
And so as I was writing it, I never told anybody about it because I was just worried if I started to explain it, people would kind of start.
Yeah, exactly.
And then I would just like lose all enthusiasm.
But I kind of knew that I could make it all work.
This was something that was really challenging to write, but it was really fun, is that in the middle of the book, we kind of flashback to Adora's past.
Yes.
And she was a comedy writer, as I was once a comedy writer.
And something happens to her, which is a workplace kind of sexual assault.
Yes.
And that was, it's kind of a pastiche of two different things that happened to me when I was a TV writer, which I really exaggerated for effect.
But they were sexual assaults, even though I didn't even really
recognized it as such at the time.
Yes, that happened to me.
Yes, yes, and kind of combined them.
Yes.
And in my case, one of them made me kind of quit my job, and the other one got me fired from my job.
And I didn't tell anybody about it.
I didn't tell friends.
It was just too shameful, you know?
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