Wit and Wisdom from Mary-Louise Parker

You have your own guacamole. Why are you eating my guacamole?

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A few years ago, I went to hear Mary-Louise Parker speak about her then-new and still-wonderful book, Dear Mr You, a memoir in the form of letters to real and imagined men in her life. She was fabulous and lovely and the book is wonderful. Recommended.

Dear Mr. You

Here’s some of what she said that night.

On letters

I’m really into stationery and pens. I love writing letters. If you really take the time with a letter, it does matter to people. Some letters — I remember holding them, so excited I almost didn’t want to open them. It’s so romantic to me, a letter. Up there with jewelry.

On why she chose to write to and about men in her memoir

Why not? I am such a romantic and I do love men and I love those crazy experiences.

On why she doesn’t name the men she addresses in her memoir