That's Mildly Amusing!

Let’s say you’re a writer, an actual writer and not an exercise specialist or diet doctor, and yet prose is not really your form—you just aren’t that good at it. Well, you might be a poet or a playwright, in which case your book would be made up of poems or plays or a mix of commencement addresses and half-hearted book reviews. But let’s say it isn’t, that it’s made up of brief essays about heartbreak and crazy families and growing up. Let’s stipulate further that you can go on television and talk about your book, and in doing so you will entertain people rather than bore them. Then, most likely, you’re a comedy writer. In this case you’re Merrill Markoe, your book is titled Cool, Calm & Contentious, and I really shouldn’t have bought it for my mother.