Comedy writing instructor and satirist ElissaBassist takes down rape culture in her debut memoir, Hysterical. BrookeKnisley spoke with Bassist about finding her voice, reviving the art of the footnote, and more:
, I quoted horror critic Joe Bob Briggs who said that horror comedies—when they’re successful—are 80% horror and 20% comedy and as I reached the last section of your book, I was like,At the sentence level, you crack these jokes that are hilarious, but over and over, it’s just all these very horrific truths.Now, that’s the best take I’ve ever heard on the book. I thank you so much for it.
Because still—to this day—we’re seeing the backlash, or the backlash of the backlash, where talking about the crime is worse than the crime itself. We just vilify the people who will speak out about it and protect the people who did it. And I just hate that so much.When you’re silent for so long, it does take a toll on you, and I’m sorry that you had to go through it, but it is amazing you were able to write this.
And how dare they say what they said and do what they did. I mean, it’s mind boggling to me, but of course it isn’t technically illegal.I was just blown away by your footnotes, which were so hilarious and so great and enlightening, like true footnotes. Whenever someone, myself included, thinks of footnotes, we think of David Foster Wallace or Junot Diaz, and all of those footnotes are just like…onanism.
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