Roz Chast and Patty Marx at Ridgefield Library with New Rules for Couples Book

 

Roz Chast and Patty Marx will present their hysterical new book, You Can Only Yell At Me For One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples, with a visual presentation and conversation.

 

This couples guide will make you laugh at everyday situations and their humorous nuances! This is the second book they have co-authored. The first was, Why Don’t You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It: A Mother’s Suggestions.

 

Patricia Marx has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1989. She is a former writer for “Saturday Night Live” and “Rugrats” and the author of several books. Marx was the first woman elected to the Harvard Lampoon. She has taught screenwriting and humor writing at Princeton, New York University, and Stonybrook University. She was the recipient of a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship.

 

Roz Chast loved to draw cartoons since she was a child growing up in Brooklyn. She attended Rhode Island School of Design, majoring in painting because it seemed more artistic. However, soon after graduating she reverted to type and began drawing cartoons once again. She has been a New Yorker cartoonist since 1978 and also publishes cartoons in Scientific American and for the Harvard Business Review.

Tickets are $5 which can be used off the purchase price of You Can Only Yell At Me For One Thing at a Time on the evening of the program.