Greg Mania is a writer, comedian, and award-winning screenwriter based in New York City. His words have been published in
The New Yorker,
Vanity Fair,
O, The Oprah Magazine,
PAPER,
HuffPost,
Out,
BOMB,
Electric Literature, among other international online and print platforms.
His debut memoir is
Born to Be Public.
At Electric Lit, Mania tagged seven titles about being young and messy in New York, including:
Don’t Worry, It Gets Worse by Alida Nugent
My first apartment was in East Harlem. I’d take long walks to the Barnes & Noble on 86th Street and sit my broke ass down to read whole books from the humor section. Don’t Worry, It Gets Worse was one of those books. Like Nugent, I, too, was a 20-something college graduate navigating adulthood with the same finesse I would possess at pole vault. Did the employees at the Upper East Side Barnes & Noble start to recognize me and cast looks of pity in my direction? Yes. But it was worth it, because this book made a confusing time in my life a little less lonely.
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--Marshal Zeringue
Greg Mania is a writer, comedian, and award-winning screenwriter based in New York City. His words have been published in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, O, The Oprah Magazine, PAPER, HuffPost, Out, BOMB, Electric Literature, among other international online and print platforms.
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