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In A Kid from Marlboro Road, past and present intermingle as family stories are told and retold. The narrative careens between the prior generation’s colorful sojourns in the Bronx and Hell’s Kitchen and the softer world of Gibson, the town on Long Island where they live now. There are scenes in the Rockaways, at Belmont racetrack, and in Montauk. Edward Burns’s buoyant first novel is a bildungsroman, yet out of one boy’s story a collective warmth emerges, a certain kind of American tale, raucous and joyous.

The death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and the ensuing trial of Derek Chauvin for murder a year later has rubbed raw the bloodiest stain on the United States’ history and its world reputation. The nine minutes and 29 seconds during which Chauvin’s knee crushed the spark of life out of Floyd was not unusual in the history of the United States. In roughly two centuries, Blacks have achieved nominal freedom. But, as this book’s opening chapter and expert essays that follow indicate, freedom has been conditional based on inequity of wealth, social, and legal discrimination.

As you listen on, you will come across struggle, survival, disappointment, and hope. You will laugh, and you will cry; you will reflect, and you will remember, but most importantly, you will learn, grow, and be transformed by the stories of these resilient women. When a small group of career women met at a Let’s Grow Sip & Paint event in January 2020, they joked that 2020 was the only time they were all going to have 20/20 vision, and they should embrace it and create a legacy for the new decade.

Learn about the philosophy behind director greats like Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Nolan and dive into screenwriting nightmares like Suicide Squad and Wonder Woman: 1984 in The Wisecrack Movie Buffs Collection!

From Animaniacs to Adventure Time, Wisecrack dives into our favorite cartoons and how they impacted us from childhood into adulthood.

Comedy has evolved significantly over the past century from live shows, television, and the big screen, but what’s next? Is comedy deader than a bad yo-mama joke or totally alive and well? Listen in as Wisecrack dives into how comedy got depressed, what we can learn from greats like Key and Peele, and the future of comedy in this curated collection, available for the first time in audio.