Sleepwalk With Me_ And Other Painfully True Stories - Mike Birbiglia [68]
—David Wain, writer/director of Role Models,
Wet Hot American Summer, and The State
“Sleepwalk with Me is not your typical comedian-writes-book book. It’s something else. It’s laugh-out-loud funny from beginning to end, and it’s a truly fascinating and bizarre story about a guy with a very real and a very unique problem. It completely blew me away.”
—Michael Showalter, host of Michael Showalter Showalter
and author of Mr. Funny Pants
“Mike is my favorite kind of hero in his stories: always self-aware, usually awkward, sometimes sad, but never cynical or bitter. The truths he unpacks from his life ring like a bell.”
—Adam Savage, co-host of Discovery’s MythBusters
“Sleepwalk with Me is an amazing read—funny, insightful, heartbreaking, uplifting, terrifying at times, and very, very funny. Yeah, I said funny twice, but that’s because it’s really funny.”
—Will Forte, writer and cast member,
Saturday Night Live
“Birbiglia’s ability to translate this singular comic persona into seamless, Pringles-addictive prose is a radical achievement. You will want to play in Mike’s childhood home, experience his delayed adolescence, and walk lucid through his dreams.”
—Lena Dunham, writer and director of Tiny Furniture
“Mike Birbiglia’s crafted a genuine rarity—a boisterous book you want to listen to, quietly.”
—Patton Oswalt, author of Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
“Mike Birbiglia should be particularly commended on his sleepwalking story, which is most responsibly written, turning a non-funny situation into one of hilarity, and legitimizing such occasionally injurious behaviors as a normal part of human existence unrelated to psychiatric disorders.”
—Mark Mahowald, M.D., coauthor of Parasomnias