Waiting for the Punch: Words to Live by from the WTF Podcast by Marc Maron (Epub)

Description

Each week over a million and a half listeners tune into WTF with Marc Maron to hear Marc and a guest do something remarkable: talk.

Waiting for the Punch is not simply a collection of these interviews, but instead something more wondrous: a running narrative of the world’s most recognizable names working through the problems, doubts, joys, triumphs and failures we all experience. With each chapter covering a different topic: parenting, childhood, relationships, sexuality, success, failures and others, Punch becomes a sort of everyman’s guide to life. Barack Obama candidly discusses the challenges of the presidency, and the bittersweet moments of seeing your children grow up and away from you. Bruce Springsteen speaks on the dual nature of desperation to both motivate and devastate. Amy Schumer recounts the pain of a parents’ divorce.

At once laugh-out-loud funny, heartbreakingly honest, joyous, tragic and powerful, Waiting for the Punch is a book to be read from cover to cover, but it is also one to return to again and again.

User’s Reviews

Review “As readers will expect, there are plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, but what is more surprising and refreshing is how many profound and powerful insights Maron manages to draw from his guests. An insightful collection of interviews about what it means to be human. This book, it turns out, helps explain W is TF.”― Kirkus”Maron’s latest is a deeply moving, inspirational, and witty work.”― Publishers Weekly“People say stuff to [Marc] that you can’t imagine them saying to anyone else.” – Ira Glass “ Somehow [Maron] is able to elicit from his guests [a] vulnerability…The interviews often end up feeling more like therapy sessions… A must listen.” – The New York Times “One of the most talked-about and listened-to podcasts on the Internet” – NPR “A must-listen for fans and students of comedy as well as a place for an increasingly impressive, high-profile roster of comedians, artists, musicians, and writers to reveal themselves and publicly wrestle their demons.” – The AV Club

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published on UniedVRG. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ I discovered Marc Maron in 2010 when I moved across country to the west coast, and one night was invited to a stand up show at The Purple Onion. He was fantastic, and reminded me of home. I’ve been a listener of WTF ever since, and there isn’t a week I don’t tune in to hear him rant about his life and the wonderfully honest, human conversations he has with his guests.This book is really fantastic in every way from the index – which is so thorough, so if you look up a particular guest, you can find where he/she is featured or even just a particular topic that you’re more interested in – to the overall structure of it, story after story laid out in one beautifully organized volume.For any avid WTF listener, this is the volume to have and devour within hours, even if you’ve heard most of these stories on the podcast already.For those who don’t know Marc Maron or WTF well, this is a wonderfully hilarious, sad, soulful collection. Read just one chapter (I love “Identity”), and you’ll wonder why you never heard of WTF before.Makes me appreciate what Marc Maron does, and really being alive. Yes, that’s it. WTF has over the years, given me life.

⭐ I love Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, and have been listening for years. I got a Howl subscription just for that, and only listen to maybe one other podcast. So, I really like it and support it. I love the in depth conversations, and the way Marc’s eclectic knowledge often leads the conversations in unexpected directions.So, I was excited to read this book because I figured that there would be great collective wisdom by organizing snippets of 800 conversations by topic, and hearing a lot of smart, interesting people weigh in on life lessons.There is that, and there are some of the good stories I remember, but I found the book difficult to get through because so much of it was a downer, and so am giving it three stars.Now, I like depressing stuff maybe more than the next guy, but there was too much for me to really enjoy the book. Much of the book is devoted to stories of bizarre sexual proclivities, molestation, abuse, addiction, depression, failure, sickness, and death.Of course, this is all drawn from the original podcast, but there is a balance in the podcast that I just felt was off in this book. There were positive, uplifting stories in the book too, but not nearly enough to balance out the slog of negativity in all of the other stories. It was not pleasant for me to read, and by the end, I was glad to be done.I have no doubt that this book will help some people, and will have an audience that appreciates it. It is not for me. I will continue to listen to and enjoy the excellent podcast from which the book was drawn.

⭐ I liked this book– it was a nice organization of many of the topics Maron has covered in his podcast. I laughed out loud at many moments, and found the material to be so authentic and relatable. I can see how Maron has used this platform to grow as a person, and i am thankful he took a minute to organize it into categories. It is innate for people to worry and overthink and compare themselves to see if they are doing it right– living. There are so many social media lists out there assuring us that we are in fact, “doing it wrong”. It is just so comforting to read about the real experiences others have had and see– well, we are all just fumbling around, trying to figure it out together. Reading about this kind of humility in others really helps you to have compassion for yourself. I can’t wait to see Marc on Friday when he comes to Denver!

⭐ I’ve been a Maron fan for quite a while (really liked his show on IFC). I really enjoyed this book…there are lots of funny anecdotes but also a lot of really moving ones. I’m glad there were different sections that focused on mortality, success, failure and other subjects. Always nice to know that people who’ve been successful have also dealt with the same crap we all do. A really inspiring book!

⭐ One of the most insightful books of 2017. Marc Maron delivers with this awesome compilation of quotes and stories from his WTF podcast. The book fetaures hundreds of different people Marc has interviewed throughout his Podcast’s history.You will read very meaningful stories from people like Amy Poehler, Barack Obama, and Conan OBrian, just to name a few. These stories are broken up into different categories, and its awesome to learn about the personal side of celebrities we all know and idolize.

⭐ One of the best books I’ve ever read. I did not want it to end. Hadn’t heard of some of the people interviewed but didn’t matter one whit. Heartbreaking, brutal stuff that doesn’t get any more personal. Found myself relating to some of it, even. Maron basically steps aside here and lets the tape roll and the stories unfurl. Not much funny here if you’re expecting such. Just some raw stories delineating abuse, abandonment, addictions and tragedy. Lump in the throat reading.

⭐ The most inspiring book I read last year. It took me 3 months to end reading it because I tried to read it as slow as possible to enjoy everything to the fullest. Marc Maron did an incredible job interviewing everyone that’s on this book and Brendan McDonald did also an incredible work editing the pieces. Highly recommended.

⭐ This is a great collection of observations, from Marc’s podcast – the WTF pod. If you don’t know what “WTF” stands for, ask your mom. Anyway, The guests on Marc’s show (which I listen to every week) talk about their lives and things which are important to them. I recommend this book for everyone who likes to read, listen, and learn from others.

⭐ Great book. Simply just clips from the greatest podcast of all time. Every paragraph was well-selected: cathartic, relatable, funny and/or important.Buy it and open it up when you feel like touching base with yourself.

⭐ Marc Maron is great, but when I saw the description for this book I thought it was a cash grab. Surprisingly, it wasn’t. Although the book uses excerpts from Maron’s past WTF Podcast episodes its structured in that Maron introduces each chapter. And with each introduction he provides dialogue on a serious relatable topic such as identity or relationships. From there the past conversations that Maron had with guests are placed after his introduction where it provides greater depth to the topic. Really interesting, hilarious and depressing read at times.

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