Episode 31: I'm Wearing Tunics Now by Wendi Aarons

Today we have a guest essay. I'm Wearing Tunics Now by Wendi Aarons, which was originally published by McSweeney's Internet Tendency.

Wendi Aarons is a freelance humor writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker Daily Shouts, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, US Weekly Fashion Police, Wall Street Journal, and various other outlets including NPR Austin affiliate KUT.

Her writing is included in the anthologies Listen to Your Mother: What She Said Then, What We’re Saying Now (Putnam, 2015) and Keep Scrolling Til You Feel Something:Twenty-One Years of Humor from McSweeney’s Internet Tendency (McSweeneys, 2019). Her humor pieces have been performed by award-winning actresses including Uzo Aduba of "Orange Is the New Black”, Sharon Horgan, and Alison Brie of “Glow.”

Wendi is also the author of the best selling humor essay collection I'm Wearing Tunics Now (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2022), Socks (Chronicle Books, 2023) and middle-grade novel Ginger Mancino, Kid Comedian (June 2022, BookBar Press).