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May 2025

Pitch Emails: At The End of the Season, We're All Just Staring Out Into the Bus
If you leave the cameras rolling long enough, reality creeps in after the euphoria fades away
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Brendan Menapace
John Mulaney Is Doing Whatever He Wants
I wrote about the music of "Everybody's Live with John Mulaney" and having the freedom to book whoever you want whenever you want
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Brendan Menapace
3 Stories From My Chemo Phase
Three years without cancer, so I wrote three essays reflecting on the process so far, and tried to find some room to laugh about having cancer. Even…
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Brendan Menapace
Closing Chapters, But Not the Book
Feeling like you're in the light at the end of the tunnel, and the transformative power of New York rich kid indie rock.
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Brendan Menapace
I Know Why It Happened
When you're a grownup, you deserve what you get for some reason or another. It's just a matter of figuring out why.
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Brendan Menapace
The Problem With Cancer Movies
The movies use cancer as a tidy shorthand plot device or condense the experience into two hours. It's unrealistic, in my experience, and very much not…
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Brendan Menapace

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