As a kid, Sarah Silverman says, the fact that she wet the bed was her “deepest, darkest shame.” Decades later, she wrote about the humiliation in her 2010 memoir The Bedwetter — now adapted into a musical. The comic talks with Terry Gross about the songs, cringing at some of her old jokes, and satirizing the Left in I Love You, America.
Book critic Maureen Corrigan shares four books for early summer reading.
Diana Goetsch grew up in a time when she didn’t have the language to help her understand what it meant to be trans. The poet chronicles her later-in-life transition in the memoir This Body I Wore.
