BAD FORM! Amy Baxter on Funny Essays
‘When I read right now, I want to feel like I’m chatting to a friend, I want an easy giggle’ :) Bad Form Literary Review’s founder and editor-in-chief Amy Baxter, who is also an Editorial Assistant at Penguin Random House (Michael Joseph), recommends her top funny books. They ended up being three books where funny women chat to you in warm, bitesize conversations -- perfect for our current de-socialised brains. Whether you’re looking for lightness and brevity in your reading, or books that will help ease you back into seeing real-life human friends again, hope you enjoy. * Amy recommends: 1 Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling (and Nothing Like I Imagined) 2 I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron (and Heartburn) 3 Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton (and Ghosts) All are in available at Bookshop.org, an online retailers that supports local, independent bookshops. * Social media links: Bad Form is an online and print literary review by and about Black, Asian, and racialised community writers. It’s full of brilliant interviews, reviews, and articles — and it’s also all gorgeously designed (by Amy!). Their Twitter is here and their Instagram is here. Sign up for their newsletter here. Wit Lit updates come from me on @lily_lindon or on Instagram @bookymcbookface. If you’d like to recommend a book or guest for the pod, please message me, I’m desperately lonely. * LL xo