I felt I was making amends, calling people out of the blue and saying, “Can I read you a little passage? And will you OK it?” What would have happened if they didn’t OK it? Would you have really left a story out?ġ00%. A few people I say take aim at and I didn’t contact them, but I was calling old boyfriends. If I mentioned anyone, I wanted it to be with a good intention. And I really just didn’t want the spirit of the book to have any fear with it. I contacted everyone I mentioned in a even tangential way to just get their blessing because I’m always scared people don’t like me or will hate me. But other than that, I haven’t shown it to my husband or other close friends or even my family. They read it at the very last stage before I turned it in I just wanted to make sure I didn’t say anything so egregious. I haven’t shown it to anyone except for Danielle Schneider, my podcast co-host, and my friend Matt McConkey. But I would just look around me and see all these women just tapping away and I felt inspired.ĭid you share your work as it was in progress with any of the women there or people who are in the book to give you feedback? I’m someone so social that the idea of just facing a blank page, not to mention excavating one’s darkest memories, was daunting.
Luckily, I wrote it at the Jane Club, which is this co-workspace and I felt less alone. I’m such a collaborative person that I’m always afraid to be left alone with my own thoughts, and really writing a book is the ultimate kind of version of that.
THE WRECKAGE OF MY PRESENCE TV
Writing TV and movies or acting, it’s such a process done by committee that there was actually something wonderful about, once I got over the fear of writing alone, just getting to do what I wanted to do. Was this a situation of literally sitting down between takes on “Black Monday” and episodes of your “Bitch Sesh” podcast? How did some of your other creative endeavors affect your work on the book? I was far enough past my mom passing away that I felt there were some stories to tell there that would hopefully help people and make people laugh. And I love David Sedaris so much and Nora Ephron and I’ve always wanted to do this, and I’ve been scared, frankly, to put myself out there in that way, but I was just about to turn 40 and I felt ready to tell some stories. My mom had these Erma Bombeck books, and she was this hilarious essayist who wrote stories about her life a housewife. I wanted to do this, honestly, since I was little. My editor thought that it should be included, so I’m really glad I did it, ultimately. To be honest, I wasn’t going to include an essay about “Happy Endings,” just because people either rabidly love the show or they’ve never seen it. So, when is the “Happy Endings” tell-all coming? I really was ready to write when I realized that I’m actually not going to try to reverse engineer this in terms of what people would think, or would they want that story, or had they heard this? I just said I’m going to tell the stories that are funny, make me laugh and that are meaningful to me, and hopefully they resonate with someone. And now, I’m so many years on I genuinely laugh about it and I’m so grateful that I can tell that story a bit removed. I used to really not talk about my experience on “SNL” because I think it was such a mixed bag of it was exhilarating and really painful. Some stories just aren’t concluded yet, in a way, and I think it’s easier to write things in hindsight. How did you know how much was enough of each part of you to include? And did you approach the behind-the-scenes stories differently if they were past shows where you may have told a lot of these stories before in interviews? “Wreckage of My Presence” does talk about some of your work experiences, but it also digs deep into your personal life. However, she also has an extensive writing résumé, including co-penning feature comedy films “Bride Wars” and “Ass Backwards.” Now, she is about to publish her first book, “ Wreckage of My Presence,” out May 4 from Harper, a collection of essays reflecting on her familial and romantic relationships and some of her past work, all through a humorous lens. Casey Wilson may be best known as an actor, with roles in “Gone Girl,” “Atypical,” “ Happy Endings” and “ Black Monday” as well as a stint as a “Saturday Night Live” cast member, and as a podcaster (“Bitch Sesh”).
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