Seek Treatment), Cohen s debut poetry collection
God I Feel Modern Tonight: Poems from a Gal About Town (Knopf, 2021) has just been released. Striking a careful balance between the poetic ( I love sex and I love before it /the double vodka soda leg touch ) and the playful ( going swimming is an amazing way/to stop being on your phone ), Cohen never ceases to entertain. I spoke with Catherine shortly after the book was published.
Gregg Shapiro: Your book
God I Feel Modern Tonight is subtitled
Poems from a Gal About Town. Were you a gal about town in (your native) Houston or did that come later?
There’s only one Catherine Cohen.
It’s something you realise about five minutes into watching her perform she’s just burped. “I’m sorry,” she says nonchalantly, “I literally can’t stop creating content.”
Comedian, poet and all-round spectacle, Cohen has made a name for herself through her intensely personal and yet highly relatable form of comedy. It’s a dizzying display of narcissism paired with her very own brand of insecurity. The result is something else.
Cohen is perhaps best-known for her songs, comedic observations about modern life from the perspective of a self-proclaimed “millennial renaissance woman.” With nothing but the sheer force of her charisma (and the ever-talented Henry Koperski on the keys), Cohen takes on the world, and no topic is off limits. There’s
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Amy Soloman, producer for HBO s Barry and Silicon Valley, curated essays, fiction and poetry from more than 150 women in comedy.Courtesy of San Antonio Book FestivalShow MoreShow Less
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Amy Soloman, producer for HBO s Barry and Silicon Valley, curated essays, fiction and poetry from more than 150 women in comedy.Courtesy of Amy SolomanShow MoreShow Less
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This weekend, the annual San Antonio Book Festival transpired online through the ether with dozens of dazzling authors and writers talking shop in the digital halls. I spoke with one of the featuring authors, Amy Solomon, who endeavored a contemporary women-in-comedy anthology called “Notes From the Bathroom Line,” the first of its kind since the 70’s. The book features 150 women in the industry.
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