Otherwise, I probably wouldn't have written it,” says Slate, who doesn’t explicitly name Shattuck in the section where she meets a “dark-haired stranger” who paints her a picture of a blue flower and recites her verses from a poem in a dream. “It was one of the first pieces I wrote for the book, and I definitely didn't think I would see him again. It's an entry that shows romantic connection obvious to a reader – so obvious that I guessed it was about Shattuck – but maybe not to Slate, herself. Shattuck actually makes an inadvertent appearance in “Little Weirds,” in a piece of the book Slate wrote about a trip to Norway with friends well before the two started dating. "I like that our relationship feels like one of the many happy results from a lot of hard personal work." "I like to be in conversation with the person I love the most at the end of a performance of pieces that I wrote in order to get myself back together," says Slate about touring with Shattuck. The two are about to embark on a "Little Weirds" book tour together. More: Prince memoir 'The Beautiful Ones' offers a glimpse inside the mind of a musical geniusīy the time of our phone interview, however, Slate has been engaged to art curator Ben Shattuck for a little over a month. The star of “The Secret Life of Pets,” “Venom” and the new Netflix special “Stage Fright” penned the fantastical memoir – which details both real experiences of loneliness and daydreams of animals playing classical music – when she was single and grappling with divorce. “Writing this book was a wish for love, and an understanding that if I didn’t find a way to find a self-love, that I really just wouldn’t be good for anyone, including myself," says Slate. It also serves as a romantic hope fulfilled. 5) is like digesting Shakespearean sonnets: It’s different enough from ordinary English that it takes your brain a few, very-long sentences to adjust to its sweet, flowery prose.īut once you’ve recalibrated, the actress/comedian’s book becomes a dreamy dessert for the eyeballs that uses playful language to express deep sentiments about heartbreak, anger, wonder and friendship. Reading Jenny Slate’s “Little Weirds” (out Nov.
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