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Missing A Father I Hardly Knew | With Willem Dafoe
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What do you do when the clock runs out on a relationship? When there's no time left to ask the questions you want answered? That's what Bruce Eric Kaplan asks in his essay, "Missing a Father I Hardly Knew."
Willem Dafoe reads Bruce's piece. He has been nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for his role in "The Florida Project," and you can also see him in "Murder on the Orient Express."
Where Are They Now?
Bruce Eric Kaplan is a cartoonist at The New Yorker, and he's also a TV writer. He's worked on Girls, Seinfeld, and Six Feet Under. He says he wrote this piece for a simple reason: "I just wasn't done."
"The relationship was over, there's nothing more over than someone dying," he says. "But there were a lot of questions for me about my father, and I wrote the piece because I was grappling with them. I don't blame him. I wrote a memoir about my parents, and the dedication is, 'This is for my parents, who tried.' And it's what I believe. I believe my parents tried their best. It sounds so sad! For a funny piece, it sounds so sad."
In the absence of a strong connection with his parents when he was a kid, Bruce found televi
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I Love You, I Hate You, I'm Hungry
Bruce Eric Kaplan
Bruce Eric Kaplan, known for his distinctive, off-beat single-panel cartoons, has been a New Yorker cartoonist for more than fifteen years. He is also a television writer and was an executive producer for the acclaimed HBO series Six Feet Under, as well as a writer on Seinfeld (funnily enough, one of his most well-known episodes is one where Elaine becomes increasingly frustrated over what she takes to be an utterly nonsensical New Yorker cartoon). He has authored and illustrated seven adult titles including the cult classic The Cat That Changed My Life; the collections I Love You, I Hate You, I’m Hungry; No One You Know; and This Is a Bad Time; and three titles featuring the wonderfully neurotic Brooklyn couple Edmund and Rosemary: Every Person on the Planet, Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell, and Everything Is Going to Be Okay. Bruce is also the author and illustrator of four picture books: Monsters Eat Whiny Children, Cousin Irv from Mars, Meaniehead, and Someone Farted. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.
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