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Cynthia Kaplan

Contributing Writer

Cynthia Kaplan is the author of two collections of comic essays, Why I'm Like This: True Stories and Leave the Building Quickly. She has written for The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and New York Magazine, among many others, as well as for television and film. She lives in New York City with her family and difficult dog and frequently performs with her band, The Cynthia Kaplan Ordeal.

A drunk man tried to sexually assault me. The next day, he apologized.
A dark room.
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A drunk man tried to sexually assault me. The next day, he apologized.

Life, death, and the dog I never knew I wanted
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Life, death, and the dog I never knew I wanted

I thought my dog would cure my son's Crohn's disease. He failed.
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I thought my dog would cure my son's Crohn's disease. He failed.