Show Notes
This week on the pod, Seth and Josh welcome Anna Konkle! Anna talks all about growing up between Vermont and Scituate, Massachusetts, meeting her PEN15 creative partner Maya Erskine in an experimental theater program in Amsterdam, stories from her family’s annual Vermont camping week, communal dinners, lake traditions, a delivered RV, and a terrifying storm that traumatized her daughter.Anna also opens up about her parents’ divorce, their unusual house-sharing arrangement, a father-daughter Carnival cruise to the Bahamas that ended in an unforgettable sunburn, and the complicated relationship she later rebuilt with her father while caring for him during cancer. Plus, she discusses her memoir The Sane One!
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