Hello? Who is This? Margaret?
by Dani Alpert
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Pub Date Aug 12 2025 | Archive Date Aug 29 2025
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Description
A comedic look at blind ambition, stubborn optimism, and perseverance
Dani Alpert is an expert on the fortitude and delusion required to pursue childhood dreams that just won’t drop dead. Her stories are a case study in the human spirit’s tenacity and its unwavering ability to keep going in the face of crushing rejection. For many years, she toiled in the entertainment business, where the only responses she received were “Almost,” “So close,” or “Not quite.” Humor was the life vest that kept her afloat.
Some of Dani’s stories dive into the bowels of childhood, the creative psyche, and the birth of an aspiring Broadway baby. Other tales explore crippling adult fears and self-doubt and what happens when the ingénue becomes a member of AARP. Whether she’s describing her bumpy road trying to get a foothold in Hollywood, her retail adventures shopping for gas masks during COVID, or her idiotic decision to vacation at a romantic couple’s resort after a heart-wrenching breakup, Dani provides gentle shoves—pep talks wrapped in cautionary tales—for anyone still chasing their dreams but feeling stuck.
In the vein of Jenny Lawson and Laurie Notaro, Hello? Who Is This? Margaret? delivers tales of universally awkward, misunderstood, and human failings through wit, pop culture, and Dani’s losses and wins (mostly losses). Her humor—sometimes dark and distorted but always self-aware—is a salve for the messiness and absurdities of life, and speak to the hopeful in all of us.
Advance Praise
“A front row seat to the inner workings of a woman with a wildly imaginative comic mind. Get swept up in these laugh-out-loud personal stories and Dani’s refusal to let heartbreak, or, like all of us, having a few dreams dashed, ever get the best of her.”
—Dani Klein Modisett, Laughter On Call, Founder/CEO, author of Take My Spouse, Please
“Hello? Who Is This? Margaret? is a find. A series of sometimes rollicking and sometimes tragedy-bounding but always amusing essays of a girl who starts on a path to a life in show business but gets diverted. From the West Coast to the East Coast to Prague, the essays take us on a journey best described as a report from a woman living, although not as a writer, but as a modern-day member of the Lost Generation. To grasp the breadth, depth, and fascination of the life being depicted, you have to read the book.”
—Mark Lonow, actor and co-owner of the World Famous Improv
“Dani Alpert has the uncanny ability to make you laugh while also being brutally honest, especially about herself. Her essays are so richly detailed that you feel like you’re a passenger on her poignantly funny adventures, from a bleak hotel in a desolate part of Prague, to her parents’ house in the suburbs, to her encounters with celebrities. Even when things don’t go the way she hoped they would, Alpert manages to find encouragement and inspiration to keep going. And we find ourselves cheering for her success, while laughing at the many obstacles in her way.”
—Scott Blakeman, comedian
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| ISBN | 9781966629191 |
| PRICE | |
| PAGES | 208 |
