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What Is Men Have Called Her Crazy Really About?


Anna Marie Tendler wants to tell her story — but the patriarchy keeps getting in the way.

On her blog, she writes with a confessional, self-aware tone — even as her life became increasingly public during h er marriage to comedian John Mulaney, she manages to seem approachable and relatable in her curiosities and passions. In the aftermath of her tumultuous divorce in 2021 from Mulaney, whose comedy often touched on his relationship with Tendler, her work, including several ongoing photography projects, was quieter, more evasive. These scenes, combined with Tendler’s detailing of her relationship with her mother, make for some of the best and most moving writing in the book, to say nothing of a very beautiful chapter on her French bulldog, Petunia, toward the end.

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