Writing this book after going through a wild, heartbroken year made me feel less alone, and I feel like that's such a universal feeling, whether or not you can relate to how I felt, and not just falling in love for the first time, but falling in love with a woman for the first time. It's about how I've felt like an internal outsider for my entire life because I just never understood what love was, that I would never get to experience it, and being a public figure only heightened that anxiety. There's an essay in the book that's called "Heartbreak City" which is, in a way, the thesis of the book. This is the kind of book that I am always searching for, so, ideally, I hope you feel like you're on this cross-country road trip with me. When I read it fully back for the first time, I realized that I would have loved this book - and this might not make sense - if it wasn't me who had written it.
Whom do you want to reach with this book? A lot of them are more real, and I get to write my personal anxieties and fears and doubts in a totally different way where I get to explore that part of myself, much in the same way I get to do on the show, but in a very different format. I think that in terms of the writing in this book, a lot of the essays are not heightened in that way. Abbi's this blubbering idiot, and it's so rare that someone rants all of this anxiety and fear out loud, so sometimes when they yell "cut!" I'm like, "what just happened?" No one really expresses all of their uncertainties and anxieties out loud like that, and I get to work some of that out through my character.
I think the heightened version of me in Broad City - and this is something I love about my job - is that I get to play all of the anxiety, fear, and nervousness physically. So how do you compare the exaggerated version of yourself that we see you portray in Broad City to this heightened version we read in I Might Regret This?
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