{"id":425827,"date":"2022-04-02T15:10:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T12:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/novelist-mines-political-world-for-laughs-in-new-book\/"},"modified":"2022-04-02T15:10:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T12:10:56","slug":"novelist-mines-political-world-for-laughs-in-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/novelist-mines-political-world-for-laughs-in-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"#Novelist mines political world for laughs in new book"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40afdee986e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40afdee986e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/novelist-mines-political-world-for-laughs-in-new-book\/#%E2%80%9CNovelist_mines_political_world_for_laughs_in_new_book%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Novelist mines political world for laughs in new book&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CNovelist_mines_political_world_for_laughs_in_new_book%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Novelist mines political world for laughs in new book&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Author Grant Ginder writes about dysfunctional families \u2014 \u201cIn particular, the imperfect ways that we love each other,\u201d as he describes it. Ginder, whose recent titles include \u201cThe People We Hate at the Wedding\u201d and \u201cHonestly, We Meant Well\u201d has a new dysfunctional family book out: \u201cLet\u2019s Not Do That Again\u201d (Henry Holt). The awkward family dynamics are there, but so is an added angle: Politics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Harrison is running for Senate, and nothing can stop her \u2014 except, possibly, her grown children. When her daughter Greta makes headlines for tossing a bottle of champagne through a Parisian restaurant as she marches with a group of extremist protesters, Nancy dispatches her son Nick to France to talk sense into his sister and bring her back to the United States. The discovery that Greta has been dating a far-right French provocateur puts into motion a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of events and complications that threaten to completely tank Nancy\u2019s chances, destroy their family, and quite possibly land one or all of them in jail.\u00a0 (Without giving away any spoilers, a building trash compactor plays an important role in the narrative.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/veep.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Author Ginder revisits the world of political humor, not done this well since, &quot;Veep.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-21715718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/veep.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/veep.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/veep.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The reality of politics, Ginder says from his own experience in Washington, DC, is far from glamorous \u2014 and tends to be \u201cmore Veep than West Wing.\u201d  <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Lacey Terrell\/Courtesy of HBO <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"681\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/grant-ginder.jpg?w=681\" alt=\"Dysfunctional families and complicated relationship dynamics are a particular focus for Ginder (above).\" class=\"wp-image-21715753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/grant-ginder.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1022 1021w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/grant-ginder.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=681 681w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/grant-ginder.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=341 340w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/grant-ginder.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\"\/><figcaption>Dysfunctional families and complicated relationship dynamics are a particular focus for Ginder (above).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Politics is a world Ginder knows well; before he turned to fiction and teaching essay writing at NYU, he interned for California representative Loretta Sanchez, and later worked as a speechwriter for John Podesta.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI learned pretty quickly that our elected leaders and their staff are just as screwed up as the rest of us. No one knows what they\u2019re doing until the exact moment they\u2019re doing,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s more Veep than West Wing. The number of times I was scrounging around for half a sandwich at 4 pm \u2014 there was little glamour to it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/loretta-sanchez.jpg?w=682\" alt=\"Ginder interned for California representative Loretta Sanchez (above) before he turned to fiction and teaching essay writing at NYU.\" class=\"wp-image-21715772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/loretta-sanchez.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1023 1023w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/loretta-sanchez.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=682 682w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/loretta-sanchez.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=341 341w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/loretta-sanchez.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\"\/><figcaption>Ginder interned for California representative Loretta Sanchez (above) before he turned to fiction and teaching essay writing at NYU.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The shine was off the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>le, but his time in DC did teach him about what he really wanted to be doing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I got to DC, I realized it was a town that traded on knowing things first, and access. There was this one day when I was sitting in the communications department. I forget which pope, but a pope was about to die,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd everyone was like, \u2018Is he dead yet, is he dead yet?\u2019 And it was a competition to know. And I thought, maybe this isn\u2019t the world for me. But I was writing speeches and I loved discovering the rhetorical power of narratives. I loved figuring that out, and how that worked.\u201d\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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