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The Nervous Breakdown Runs an Excerpt of Scott Nadelson’s The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress

25 Mar 2013|

My fiancée left me for a drag king named Donny Manicotti.

That sounds like the start of a joke, but it’s not. It’s my life.

I do find it funny now – from a distance of some years and happily married – and even at the time I recognized how ridiculous the situation was, though mostly I was bewildered and devastated. I’d always prided myself on being someone who appreciated the absurdity of life, who didn’t take it too seriously, but there’s an enormous difference, I discovered, between reading a Kafka novel or watching a Woody Allen movie and living inside of one.

To read the entire excerpt go to The Nervous Breakdown.