Bess Kalb, "No One Will Tell You This But Me"
March 30, 2020
5,814
84
1.44%
Search the Record
IndexedEvery word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
Politics and Prose Episodes Around March 30, 2020
See what was published immediately before and after this episode.
53:39Now PlayingBess Kalb, "No One Will Tell You This But Me"
YouTube Description
as posted by the channelWinner of a Writer’s Guild Award in 2016, Kalb is an Emmy-nominated writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live and a regular contributor to The New Yorker’s “Daily Shouts.” The voice in her unique memoir, though, was scripted by her formidable and endearing grandmother, Bobby, Kalb’s advisor, confidante, and best friend. Bobby died in 2017 at age 89, but she lives on via the voicemails Kalb saved and replays here, messages full of career tips, make-up advice, and vivid accounts of her own and the family’s history, from Kalb’s great-grandmother’s escape from the pogroms in 1880s Belarus and her arrival in Brooklyn to Bobby’s marriage to a businessman, her children’s experience of the American dream, and Kalb’s own rise as a professional comedy writer.
-----------------------------------------------------Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE----------------------------------------------------------------
Visit us online at
Follow us on Twitter
Follow us on instagram
Like us on Facebook
Founded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics and Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics and Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online.
Produced by Tom Warren
Links & Promotions
Guests & Subjects Covered
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.