Comedian Gary Gulman Wants You to Learn From His Mortifying Childhood

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyComedian Gary Gulman’s research to write Misfit: Growing Up Awkward In the ’80s, began almost 50 years ago. While most of us have hazy memories of kindergarten, Gulman’s are somehow in crisp focus. As years pass and lunch boxes and school bus drivers become wall-lockers and shopping malls, the author recreates the intensity of those lonely, befuddled days, giving readers grace for their own baffled adolescence. Everyone has been there

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