My dad was a human resource manager at 7-eleven for many years. I got coupons for free slurpees and hot dogs. And wielded them to buy friends. My dad taught me how to properly bag items upon checkout and not overlook meat injected with cheese. Other stuff too. The first year of estrangement with my dad was the hardest and I moved to LA to find myself and run away and make funny videos but 7-elevens were on every corner.
Thank you @latimes@rebrods 🙏🏻
Writer and actress @annaryankonkle just released her debut book, ‘The Sane One.’
Best known for co-creating and starring in the beloved @hulu series #PEN15, Konkle grew up seeing humor as a powerful coping mechanism. It’s no surprise, then, that she takes a similar approach in her work—whether it’s mining preteen memories for ‘PEN15’ or exploring complicated family dynamics in ‘The Sane One.’
At the link in our bio, Konkle shares the “traumedies” that inspired her memoir, ranging from recent literary hits to beloved children’s books.
(Image credit: Sela Shiloni / Random House)
Family—
Mom, Dad, Brother,
Alex & baby Essie…
I wrote something about us
And it’s quite intimate.
That was the point and yet, I feel naked. You must too.
I am grateful and thankful for (almost) every challenge that I’ve written about and otherwise. I'm most grateful for the ODD brand of JOY I was born into with you lot.
You taught me the wisdom of outsiderness without saying it and for a time I tried to deny it swam in me but when I embraced it, life opened.
Despite wondering every day, why are we all here—
The main answer I have is a prayer-ful, smiling, calling out into the sky LIFE IS NOT SIMPLE. And to that I say, OKAY ☺️ (today).
I LOVE YOU my family. Thank you for letting me be with you, sending support in sharing our story (from one vantage point) and supporting art over vanity. It’s not lost on me that I am lucky.
Father, I miss you.
-anna
It’s a wonder how a semi-autobiographical TV show trying to depict unhinged-ness of being girls —being tweens—got made. The Sane One is my memoir 🫣 and there is no longer a “semi” to hide behind (get ur mind out of the gutter fools). And the exploration of girlhood and womanhood and…. humanhood (🤷♀️) is more raw, brutal, and melancholy but also speaks to our resilience. So… a warning anddd an invitation? But it is funny too. Pretty sure.
Also, I am taking the opportunity with this book tour to stage some chapters more like a play reading. With wonderful actors 🙇🏼♀️. It will be an experiment. I can promise a middle school chapter. But there will be other decades of discomfort too.
So NYC, come join on May 7 if you can! 7pm at The Strand (an institution so if my knees buckle, just help me up—all good).
Tickets in bio 🌳
CHICAGO.
Hi sry can u save a dance for me later or no? If u don't hate me I could like rest my head on ur shoulder (metaphorically) @citywinerychi book event — there’s a staged reading w/ Namir Smallwood & @xkarenxrodriguez , cootie catchers and book signing too. 12pm @ City Winery May 9, k hun? Mama all grown up now (I'm mama). Tickets in bio.
xo
Save me a dance.
First book tour stop: LA. Tinsel town. Holly weird. Wear ur best thong. And join us for a special reading of The Sane One (@timheidecker will play my OG middle school crush)
May 5 @ Harmony Gold!
Tickets in bio!
“[Pen15] was semi-autobiographical and sometimes felt like some very expensive therapy,” writes the show’s co-creator, @annaryankonkle . “My co-creator Maya and I had written our parents as versions of our real parents. I wrote lines of dialogue where they’d fight with each other and make up, like they did in real life. And just like real life, they would eventually divorce in the show — and even split the house in two.”
Konkle relived many parts of her relationship with her father for the show — while not being in contact with him — before they finally reconnected. She recounts the first dinner they had together after their estrangement in her new memoir, 'The Sane One' (out May 5). Read the full excerpt at the link in bio.
Photos: Courtesy of Anna Konkle
Book tour comin’ straight to ya LA! After five follow up phone calls… Rachel said yes. Tim too, eventually. First stop: LA on May 5 with @booksoup 📕 🍜 @harmonygoldpreviewhouse
Tickets in bio!
Moderator: @racheldoesstuff
Middle School crush: @timheidecker
My partner, playing… himself: @alexanfanger 💜
My Pen15 mom and dad Melora Walters and Taylor Nichols 🫶
I'll be signing books and year 2000 cootie catchers (for real)
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