Roz Chast: While You Were Sleeping
6/25/20261 hr 1 min
Host Meg Wolitzer presents three works from an evening with New Yorker author and cartoonist Roz Chast, inspired by Chast’s book I Must be Dreaming. “The Wife on Ambien,” by Ed Park, is a sort of late-night fever dream. It’s read by John Fugelsang. In Tessa Hadley’s “Bad Dreams,” images than begin in dreams envelop a family in real life.The reader is Rita Wolf. Tom Barbash’s “Stay Up With Me” charts the rocky path of an old love affair. It’s read by Jason Ralph. And stay tuned for Chast’s own weird dream life, some of which she shares in this episode.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
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Speaker 20:29
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Meg Wolitzer· Host0:59
[upbeat jazz music] Forget Freud. New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast is the best interpreter of dreams, hands down. I'm Meg Wolitzer, and on this Selected Shorts, Chast reads from her new book, I Must Be Dreaming.
Roz Chast· Guest1:19
So I had this dream about Danny DeVito. [audience laughing] I dreamed that I was married to him. In my dream, he lay with his head in my lap, gazing up at me with adoration,