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Oct 2022
47m 10s

Rachel Bloom On 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' & ...

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Bloom talks about writing songs for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and losing her musical collaborator Adam Schlesinger, who died from COVID-19 complications in March 2020. She now stars in the Hulu series Reboot as a writer who wants to reboot an old family sitcom from the early 2000s — but make it darker and edgier. She spoke with contributor Ann Marie Baldonado.

Also, Maureen Corrigan reviews Celeste Ng's new novel Our Missing Hearts.
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