R. Eric Thomas | Congratulations, the Best Is Over!: Essays

Recorded August 8, 2023
R. Eric Thomas is the author of the Lambda Literary Award finalist Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul America, a bestselling essay collection that tackles just what it means to be an “other” in the maelstrom of modern America. For four years he wrote Elle’s “Eric Reads the News,” a daily humor column that lambasted pop culture, celebrity, and politics. Also a renowned television writer and playwright, he has garnered many awards, including the Barrymore Award and the Dramatists Guild Lanford Wilson Award. Thomas is the longtime host of The Moth StorySlams in Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, and his writing has been published in The New York Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer, among other periodicals. In his latest essay collection, he reflects on whether or not we really can go home again as he makes a new life in his hometown of Baltimore.
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[@cheri238]

What a delicious sweet fruit of varieties of exotic teas of splendor and gardens of mixed seeds of vegetables of spending time listening to your work, Mr. Eric Thomas. The laughter is contagious of stews and jams of finding yourself in the mixes of colors of artistry.
Thank you for this exhilarating afternoon market filled with pies of content. 🙏❤️🌏🕊🎶
What a joy you are!!!
With the deepest appreciation and admiration for your life of writings.
Reverence ✨️ ❤

[@blaq7892]

Seen this yesterday, as a regular man and avid theater goer, I assume to have put a non Alphabet character in is forbidden , changing a characters gender in an established 100 year story ,like Black no More? Makes sense. Ok
I guess a all happy company is cool ,no non happy folk.
Woke is strong and killing real theater and stories.
I judge Alphabet stories by, Suger in our Wounds, a great story.
It was a pay as you exit, i still put a 20 in the envelope.
The rainbow struggle in no way is comparable to the black struggle.
I knew it was Alphabet but i tried ? It wasn't Hot wing king!!!!! A father son story hidden in a happy love 0:08 story, katorri hall is a genius.