'New Yorker' cartoonists confess to nightmare kitchens
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'New Yorker' cartoonists confess to nightmare kitchens

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 26, 202644 min
  • Interview

New Yorker cartoonists Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein confess to the horrors lurking behind their kitchen cabinets and refrigerator doors – and the comedy they find in their anxiety. They spoke with Terry Gross about their new book, The Two Saddest Kitchens. Katzenstein also talks about his graphic memoir about living with OCD. Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter Follow us on Instagram Subscribe to our YouTube channel Check out the Fresh Air Archives See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your...

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listen to UpFirst every morning on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. This is Fresh Air. I'm Terea Gross. My guests are two New Yorker cartoonists, Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein, who have teamed up to reveal a shameful problem they share, their kitchens.

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Their new graphic memoir, The Two Satis Kitchens, reveals it all in words and illustrations, including moldy food hiding in the back of the refrigerator, the shelf with plastic storage containers and lids, but none of the lids fit, dysfunctional appliances, and a couple of cockroach infestations.

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