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EVERYTHING IS HORRIBLE AND WONDERFUL
A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love, and Loss
On February 19, 2015, Stephanie Wittels Wachs got a life-changing phone call. Her younger brother, Harris Wittels, a star in the comedy world known for his work as a writer and producer on shows like Parks and Recreation and The Sarah Silverman Program, and praised by the likes of Louis CK, Jimmy Kimmel, Patton Oswalt and Marc Maron for his own standup routines, had died of a heroin overdose.
The space between life and death is a moment.
But it will remain alive in me for hundreds of thousands of future moments.
One phone call. That's all it took to change Stephanie Wittels Wachs' life forever..
Her younger brother Harris, a star in the comedy world known for his work on shows like Parks and Recreation, had died of a heroin overdose. How do you make sense of such a tragic end to a life of so much hilarious brilliance?
In beautiful, unsentimental, and surprisingly funny prose, Stephanie Wittels Wachs alternates between her brother's struggle with addiction, which she learned about three days before her wedding, and the first year after his death, in all its emotional devastation. This compelling portrait of a comedic genius and a profound exploration of the love between siblings is A Year of Magical Thinking for a new generation of readers.
A heartbreaking but hopeful memoir of addiction, grief, and family, Everything is Horrible and Wonderful will make you laugh, cry, and wonder if that possum on the fence is really your brother's spirit animal.
Stephanie Wittels Wach holds a B.F.A in Drama from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and an M.A. in Theatre from the University of Houston School of Theatre and Dance. Her writing has been featured on Vox, Longform, Longreads, Huffington Post, Fatherly, Mamamia, Babble, and Medium. Before co-founding the Rec Room, a performance space in downtown Houston, she was the head of the acting
program at Houston's esteemed High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. A well-known voice-over actress for ADV and Seraphim Films, Stephanie is also the co-host of "Hands Off Parents," a weekly parenting podcast.
But it will remain alive in me for hundreds of thousands of future moments.
One phone call. That's all it took to change Stephanie Wittels Wachs' life forever..
Her younger brother Harris, a star in the comedy world known for his work on shows like Parks and Recreation, had died of a heroin overdose. How do you make sense of such a tragic end to a life of so much hilarious brilliance?
In beautiful, unsentimental, and surprisingly funny prose, Stephanie Wittels Wachs alternates between her brother's struggle with addiction, which she learned about three days before her wedding, and the first year after his death, in all its emotional devastation. This compelling portrait of a comedic genius and a profound exploration of the love between siblings is A Year of Magical Thinking for a new generation of readers.
A heartbreaking but hopeful memoir of addiction, grief, and family, Everything is Horrible and Wonderful will make you laugh, cry, and wonder if that possum on the fence is really your brother's spirit animal.
Stephanie Wittels Wach holds a B.F.A in Drama from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and an M.A. in Theatre from the University of Houston School of Theatre and Dance. Her writing has been featured on Vox, Longform, Longreads, Huffington Post, Fatherly, Mamamia, Babble, and Medium. Before co-founding the Rec Room, a performance space in downtown Houston, she was the head of the acting
program at Houston's esteemed High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. A well-known voice-over actress for ADV and Seraphim Films, Stephanie is also the co-host of "Hands Off Parents," a weekly parenting podcast.
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