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Carlos Kotkin is an award-winning comedian, author and screenwriter who explores the everyday. The strange, the hilarious, the uncomfortably painful.
You know, life.
Carlos Kotkin's dating memoir of romantic misadventures was published by Penguin. The title is racier than the book itself. His mother wrote the foreword.
by Carlos Kotkin
About a year into our marriage, my wife and I decided we were ready for the adventure of having a child. Despite our best efforts, it wasn't happening. We didn't know why. One night as we were watching television, my wife turned to me and said, 'I think you're the problem."
Opening paragraph from a Modern Love essay published in The New York Times
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