Jobs Report: Kickstarter’s Publishing Ambassador Maris Kreizman Details Her Day
Maris Kreizman is a Publishing Project Specialist at Kickstarter. What does that mean?
Slaughterhouse 90210
Excerpts From Maris Kreizman’s ‘Slaughterhouse 90210’
I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most. —Margaret Atwood
It all started with a poignant scene from the semi-scripted show The Hills, as many great intellectual undertakings do. The heroine and moral center of the not-quite-reality show that ran on MTV from 2006 to 2010 and preceded the rise of Real Housewives–esque wealth-porn TV was Lauren Conrad, a mega-privileged California girl with tons of wonderful opportunities, a beautiful apartment, great hair, and really bad taste in boys and friends. The entire show had a fake, airbrushed glow about it, but Lauren’s emotions always seemed so real. She felt things. There’s a famous screenshot from The Hills that shows Conrad arguing with a friend over some petty yet dramatic grievance and crying the most perfect single black mascara tear.
Nice Guys Finish First: Josh Gondelman, a New Writer of ‘Last Week Tonight’
What’s the deal with Josh Gondelman? Here’s a 30-year-old guy who managed to parlay a parody Seinfeld Twitter account into a new book (out today) and a staff writing gig on John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight. He’s someone who you probably already kind of hate based on that one-sentence description, or at least feel annoyed enough about that you are considering putting down this article and retooling your screenplay (not that you will). And yet, he’s widely respected in the comedy community as being a sweetheart in an industry that doesn’t exactly celebrate the “nice guy.” And yet, his co-written Twitter account is really funny. And yet, he’s just a normal, likable person. So again, we ask: what’s the deal with this guy?
“Josh Gondelman is the nicest man in comedy,” said Sara Benincasa, a New York-based comedian and author of author Agorafabulous! and the upcoming DC Trip and Real Artists Have Day Jobs. “He’s caring, smart, funny, talented, and deeply kind.”
“What I’m saying is, I assume he has bodies in his basement.”
It was in December 2012 that Mr. Gondelman and another comedian, former BuzzFeed writer Jack Moore, began writing the Twitter account @SeinfeldToday. Chances are you’ve already followed them, or read a trend piece about the account. Calling it a parody is actually a misnomer. It’s more of an homage: What if the Larry David characters were re-imagined in the social media era? As in:
