The Longest Date: Life as a Wife
Cindy Chupack, 2014
Viking Press
224 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780670025534
Summary
An award-winning writer for Sex and the City and Modern Family takes a hilarious, heartbreaking look at marriage
Cindy Chupack has spent much of her adult life writing about dating and relationships for several hit TV series and as a sex columnist for O, The Oprah Magazine. At the age of thirty-nine, she finally found The One—and a wealth of new material.
Marriage, Cindy discovered, was more of an adventure than she ever imagined, and in this collection of essays she deftly examines the comedy and cringe-worthy aspects of matrimony. Soulful yet self-deprecating, The Longest Date recounts her first marriage (he was gay) and the meeting of Husband No. 2, Ian.
After the courtship and ceremony, both Cindy and Ian realized that happily ever after takes some practice, and near constant negotiation over everyday matters like cooking, sex, holidays, monogamy, and houseguests. The Longest Date takes a serious turn when it comes to infertility.
The Longest Date is the perfect companion for anyone navigating a serious relationship, be it newlyweds or couples moving in that direction. (From the publisher.)
Author Bio
• Birth—April 29, 1970
• Where—Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
• Education—B.A., Northwestern University
• Awards—Golden Globe Awards (3); Emmy Awards (2)
• Currently—Los Angeles, California
Cindy Chupack is a screenwriter who has won three Golden Globes and two Emmys for her work as a writer/executive producer of HBO’s Sex and the City and writer/co-executive producer of ABC’s Modern Family.
Several episodes she penned—"Little Bo Bleep" (Modern Family) and "Evolution," "Attack of the 5'10" Woman," "Just Say Yes," "Plus One is the Loneliest Number," "I Love a Charade," and "Splat!" (Sex and the City—were individually nominated for Writer's Guild and/or Emmy awards. Chupack also worked on Everybody Loves Raymond as a writer/co-executive producer.
In May 2010, NBC announced it had commenced production of Love Bites, a television series created by Chupack for the NBC network.
Her first book, The Between Boyfriends Book, was published in 2003, and her second, a comic memoir about marriage, The Longest Date, in 2014. She has also written humorous essays for The New York Times, Real Simple, Harper's Bazaar, People, Allure, Slate, and Glamour.
Chupack is from Tulsa, Oklahoma. She received a journalism degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois..(From Wikipedia.)
Book Reviews
Chupack chronicles the ups and downs of marriage in this amusing collection of short, real-life stories. The comedy writer leaves no stone unturned.... The pieces that touch on fertility issues deserve their own category: Chupack and her husband...detail this often painful subject with both sorrow and hope.
Publishers Weekly
Laugh-out-funny and surprisingly poignant.
Booklist
An award-winning TV writer and magazine sex columnist gives the scoop on the "honest, horrible, hysterical truth about the early years of marriage."... Rather, they are beginnings that, for all the pain and loss they may entail, offer the chance to "see higher highs than you ever imagined." A straight-talking, funny and poignant memoir.
Kirkus Reviews
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