Angela Nissel faces down grief with a laugh
Author and writer Angela Nissel discusses her new memoir, 'Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead,' and her career path from blogging to writing for television. She shares personal insights on coping with grief through humor and her favorite everyday tools.
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The piece offers a humanizing look at a creative professional who has influenced modern pop culture and digital media.
Angela Nissel’s latest book, Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead, is my kind of memoir. Sure, it’s a deeply emotional tale about caring for a terminally ill parent. But it’s delivered with the sort of gallows humor that I often turn to to get me through tough times.
Of course, that sort of dark humor should come as no surprise from Nissel. She first made a splash with The Broke Diaries, which grew out of a blog she kept in college detailing her daily struggles and, at times, embarrassment at being a broke student. Eventually she went on to produce and write for hit shows including Scrubs and The Boondocks.
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