{"id":28908,"date":"2019-04-06T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T07:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=28908"},"modified":"2019-04-06T00:01:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T07:01:18","slug":"cathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/cathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cathy Guisewite: I Can’t Wait to Spend Time With This Funny, Wise Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cartoonist Cathy Guisewite’s new book, “Fifty Things That Aren’t My Fault,” arrived in my mailbox this week. Can’t wait to read it. Selfie by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

Full disclosure. Cartoonist Cathy Guisewite and I are sorority sisters. We lived in the same house across from the Bus Ad building in Ann Arbor, Michigan, during the ’60s. And we were both English majors. I never met Cathy, too bad for me; she joined our sorority at the University of Michigan a few years after I did. But I’ve always taken a bit of pride, a lot of pride, in claiming this talented humorist and cultural commentator as my sister.<\/p>\n

Even without our shared history, Cathy would be a kindred spirit. She was the nationally syndicated author of the “Cathy” comic strip<\/a> for decades, and she sees the funny side of life — no, strike that: she sees life straight on<\/em> and manages to find the humor and the grace in it. That’s what I try to do in my writing.<\/p>\n

Her new book,<\/a> “Fifty Things That Aren’t My Fault: Essays From the Grown-Up Years,” was released April 2 by Putnam, and it has already arrived in my mailbox.\u00a0 Can’t wait to find out what Cathy has to say about “the grown-up years.”<\/p>\n

I’ll let you know\u00a0 . . . .<\/p>\n

More of my favorite authors:”Ann Patchett<\/a>” and\u00a0“John Donne.”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Cathy Guisewite, cartoonist and author of “Fifty Things That Aren’t My Fault,” writes the way I want to write: with humor and grace. Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[134,2137,2138,2139,34,2140,2141,1725,82,488,2142,2143,218],"class_list":["post-28908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-writing-reading","tag-books","tag-caroonists","tag-cathy","tag-cathy-guisewite","tag-dont-miss","tag-family-and-relationships","tag-friendship","tag-humor","tag-on-the-funny-side","tag-the-writing-life","tag-tri-delt","tag-tri-delta","tag-university-of-michigan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}