Nosy Interview: Julie Klausner

Julie Klausner, photographed by Ari Scott, in Antares and Clouds, © Ivan Eder

If, like me, you finish Julie Klausner's memoir, I Don't Care About Your Band, and badly want to spend more time in Klausner's hilarious and wise company, you're in luck: There are 60 episodes of her podcast, How Was Your Week, available! The F/M/K column (Please bring it back!) she wrote (along with Natasha Vargas-Cooper) for the Hairpin contains some of the smartest and funniest writing about desire that you'll find anywhere. We should all heed the wise words of Amy Poehler: "Read everything Julie Klausner writes and listen to everything Julie Klausner says." To find out how you can do that, visit Julie's web site.

What do you smell like? 

Jeez, I have no idear. I mean, I WISH I smelled like JOOP! because that cologne seemed fun. So did the one that was just an exclamation point. And Charlie by Revlon. Those commercials were fun. 

But I think I just smell like the clothes I'm wearing, or my shampoo. I hope I do, anyway.

What do you like to smell? 

I mean, 'what do I like to smell' --obviously, tasty things being cooked or baked, my hair being blown out by a professional.

i wish you could smell what i'm smellin'

Chelsea Peretti's hilarious Twitter feed introduced me to the delightful Daym Drops, and Julie Klausner's feed to the fact that his Five Guys Burgers & Fries review had been Auto-tuned, beautifully showcasing a favorite line:  "I wish you could smell what I'm smellin'." Speaking of Julie Klausner, I trust that, if you enjoy laughing, you're already subscribed to her podcast, How Was Your Week. It's the best! (She's also the guest on today's episode of WTF with Marc Maron; I'm headed out for a walk and a listen now).

This weekend I wore L'Air du Desert Morocain, a scent so dry it's almost scratchy. In the bottle it seems too sweet and thick for this heat and humidity, but spray and almost immediately it becomes resinous and reassuring, smoke and wood rising beautiful up off my arm, making me smell like a person alive long before Twitter, podcasts, or Auto-tune existed, lasting on the skin even through a shower, it seems, stray tendrils of that out-of-time smell reaching me even as I sit staring at this screen now.

summertime pleasures

Smelling peonies at any opportunity is also recommended.

Nosy Interviewees are an inspiringly productive bunch! If you liked their interviews, here are some new ways you can enjoy their work: 

• Rebecca Hoogs's first full-length book of poems, Self-Storage, was published in April! 
• The paperback of Natalie Bakopoulos's novel, The Green Shore, comes out today! 
• Wilson Diehl's essay, "Yes, I Really Am Bisexual. Deal With It.",  appeared in the New York Times!
• Julie Klausner's new YA novel, Art Girls Are Easy, is out now! 
• The paperback of Alyssa Harad's memoir, Coming to My Senses, will be published one week from today! 
• Kate Lebo released a new zine, The Pie Lady's Manifesto, and it's available here!
• Emily Gould was a recent guest on Other People with Brad Listi. Listen!

Wow! So much summertime entertainment for your nosy brains. Congratulations and a (virtual) bouquet as enormous as the one pictured above (scenting up my parents' whole house last week) to each of you listed here. If you're a Nosy Interviewee with some good news, let me know!

twitter sniffer no. 4

Everybody wants to know just exactly how good Oprah smells. Can it be true that she doesn't wear scents?

"This is a thing you must know: I don't wear scents. I just bathe." --@Oprah just now why does everything on my body hurt am i exploding
— Julie Klausner (@julieklausner) August 16, 2013

not ready to take sides but planetariums smell a lot better than aquariums
— Mallory Ortberg (@mallelis) August 14, 2013

"I love the smell of Irish Spring soap....[but] I might as well just say it—you cannot use it on your vagina." http://t.co/zd9DMB82Oq
— Into The Gloss (@IntoTheGloss) August 12, 2013

"This body was fresh, only about two hours old, and it hadn’t started to smell yet." Patrolling the border in Arizona http://t.co/5WNoxB4rED
— Guernica Magazine (@GuernicaMag) August 8, 2013

@kittaveli @anamanaguchi @leiaj my brother and i literally dubbed our happiest moments to be 'as good as the smell of theme park water'
— ‡ Will Wiesenfeld ‡ (@BATHSmusic) August 8, 2013

I smell like someone who should be in better shape.
— Mike Birbiglia (@birbigs) August 8, 2013

Best subway eavesdropping: 2 guys who work in upper management for the Yankees trying to solve the very real issue of away game bus smell.
— Rachel Syme (@rachsyme) August 2, 2013

I can smell fall in the air. Time to take out my tartan tams and tap some tinctured talc into them.
— Paula Pell (@perlapell) August 16, 2013

I'm going to miss that fall-in-the-air smell so much this year!