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1 week agoHow Mindy Kaling Flipped The Script On Her Life
A comedy writer’s office reflects a life shaped by early romance expectations, career artifacts, and a family timeline that diverged from her original plan.
In the room I'm working in, there's a feather-filled shrine to various dead hens, two candles in the shape of Saint Lucy's eyes, a stuffed Australian magpie, a wig, three pewter goats and a French revolutionary cockade made from a jam pot lid (an illustrative selection; there's much more). Other people are similarly well stocked with weirdness: my father has a lifesize wooden sheep.
A metal spoon with a lathe-turned wooden handle. A toolkit so tiny it fits in your hand. An album cover from a Chuck Berry record. These are among the significant objects chosen by 22 senior poets that reflect their life experiences: work, people, place, wisdom, identity. On Tuesday, Nov. 4, the poets will gather at Mother Foucault's Book Shop in Portland to read the poems,