Annabelle Gurwitch

Annabelle Gurwitch appears in the following:

Survival Stories from the Edge of 50

Monday, March 10, 2014

Actress and humorist Annabelle Gurwitch confronts the various indignities faced women of a certain age. She discusses the anti-aging offerings at a department-store beauty counter, coping with the assisted suicide of her best friend, negotiating the ins and outs of acceptable behavior with her teenager, and the reality that she’ll probably never be able to afford to retire in her book of essays, I See You Made and Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50.

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Over The Hump: Three Books To Help You Through A Midlife Crisis

Sunday, March 02, 2014

The midlife crisis book inhabits a behemoth literary genre. It spans the feel-good fantasy of Eat, Pray, Love; the survival of "ordinary disasters" and meditation on mortality that is Martin Amis' Experience; and the chintz-patterned glasses through which Anna Quindlen envisions the padded retreat into her prime real ...

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Marriage Is a Joke

Monday, March 01, 2010

You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story is a new book about humor in marriage. The co-authors, Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn, are married and both double as actors.

Event: Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn at Joe's Pub Tonight, Monday, March 1 at 9:30pm.

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Reconcilable Differences?

Monday, March 01, 2010

On the national front, Congressman Anthony Weiner discusses the prospects for health care reform and from Albany, New York State Senator Liz Krueger reacts to Governor Paterson’s decision to drop his election bid. Plus, husband and wife Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn with their new book You Say Tomato, I ...

The Secret Power of Junk Mail

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Annabelle Gurwitch, spokesperson for the “Do Not Mail Registry” and host of Planet Green’s WA$TED, and Jerry Cerasale, Senior Vice President of government affairs at the Direct Marketing Association, debate the virtues of junk mail.

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Open Phones: The Can

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

On the heels of Willie Randolph's ignominious firing as Mets manager, we ask listeners to weigh in with their stories of being let go. Annabelle Gurwitch, author of Fired! Tales of the Canned, Canceled, Downsized and Dismissed, takes a look at the different ways in which people are ...

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