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"I Didn't Even Know You Could Do It For Fun," Negin Farsad discovers Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
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Revisions, How Our Favorite Books Change Us by Jen Nails

Episode notes

Superstar comedian Negin Farsad (How to Make White People Laugh, Fake the Nation) discusses growing up Muslim American in Palm Springs but learning the bones of comedy from Roth's Portnoy, a teenaged schmegegge from Newark.

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