Read her essay here.įollow Kristin on Twitter Kristin Newman Online. Word and Film recently shared Kristin’s pondering thoughts on the importance of likability in television and in writing.

We’re excited to have a large quantity of What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding ARCs to share with you! She is funny, irreverent, honest, and interesting. When I started reading What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding, I was entirely charmed by Newman. Her smart, sexy and funny reflections of her ultimately poignant journey are sure to appeal to fans of Mindy Kaling and Chelsea Handler. The idea of a strong female protagonist challenging society’s notions of femininity and purpose, of seeing the world instead of feeling stuck. At the very least, I guarantee itll motivate you to go 'do something in the place youre supposed to do it.' I know it did for me. Read it whether youre in a relationship or not, married or not, have kids or not. She has written for “That ’70s Show,” “Chuck,” “How I Met Your Mother,” and ABC’s “The Neighbors”-or in other words, so many of our favorite sitcoms. Her new memoir, WHAT I WAS DOING WHILE YOU WERE BREEDING, is her hilarious account of her freewheeling, gallivanting twenties and thirties as she worked ample travel time into the downtime between writing seasons-and worked ample socializing and romance into those travels-while her friends at home were settling down with husbands and children. This is a great book to read if you need to laugh or just want to read about another womans crazy adventures. Equal parts laugh-out-loud storytelling thoughtful, candid reflection and wanderlust-inspiring travel tales, What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding is a compelling and hilarious debut that will have listeners scrambling to renew their passports.Comedy writer Kristin Newman has worked in Hollywood for almost twenty years.

Ultimately, Kristin's adventures led her to a better understanding of what she was actually running away from at home and why every life hurdle seemed to put her on a transatlantic flight to the unknown. She introduces listeners to the Israeli bartenders, Argentinian priests, Finnish poker players, and sexy Bedouins who helped her transform into 'Kristin-Adjacent' on the road-a quieter, less judgmental, and, yes, sluttier version of herself at home. Not ready to settle down and yet loathe to become a sad-sack single girl, Kristin instead started traveling the world, often alone, for a few months each year, falling madly in love with attractive locals who provided moments of the love she wanted without the cost of the freedom she needed. Kristin Newman spent her twenties and thirties dealing with the stresses of her high-pressure job as a television comedy writer, and the anxieties of watching most of her friends get married and start families while she wrestled with her own fear of both.

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