As the Curtain Rises, Julie Klausner Sells Memoir

When I heard through the grapevine last week that Julie Klausner (longtime readers may remember her scathing commentary on diet books) had sold a memoir to Lauren Marino at Gotham Books, I was totally psyched—Klausner has long been one of my favorite comedic talents in this city. When I called his office, agent Scott Mendel confirmed the deal, which he described as “not inconsequential,”*, and described the book—tentatively titled I Don’t CARE About Your Band, as “the Scarsdale Jewish Center’s answer to Augusten Burroughs.”

The timing couldn’t be better: Klausner’s latest stage show, Wasp Cove, opens tonight at Comix. It’s a tribute to ’80s prime-time soap operas that Klausner wrote and co-produced with Rachel Shukert (inset), in which the two star as estranged sisters in a tony Connecticut community. And if Shukert’s name sounds familiar, that’s because Emily just told you how much she enjoys her memoir, Have You No Shame? After tonight, there will be two additional installments of Wasp Cove on June 16 and July 28. (Oh, and the show also co-stars David Rakoff…as Yanni.)

*”Not inconsequential” probably falls somewhere in the high end of “very nice” or the low end of “good,” for those of you using the Publishers Marketplace guidelines…

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