00:00What have we here? It's right here. It just happened to be here. That's so crazy.
00:04Hi, this is Casey Wilson. I am here to give Marie Claire a kind of sneak peek
00:08into my personal library shelf portrait.
00:14Behind me is one of my bookshelves. We are here in a room. I've sort of made my dining room,
00:20frankly, into also a library. We have to multitask right now with our spaces.
00:25I'm an avid reader. I've also recently written a book. The Wreckage of My Presence has just come
00:31out on May 4th, and I've written a collection of comedic essays honestly inspired by some of my
00:38favorite writers who are on the shelf. One is called The Most of Nora Ephron. It's her huge essay
00:44collection, basically all the best of her work, which I absolutely love. It's so funny. Also,
00:49I have a ton of David Sedaris books here. This is his latest book, Theft by Finding. He makes me
00:57laugh constantly, so I feel like David Sedaris and Nora Ephron are the gold standard of essay
01:02collections. I like poetry. This is Maya Angelou's book of poems. It's called Just Give Me a Cool
01:07Drink of Water Before I Die. It's wonderful. This has been a well-worn copy that my mom gave me
01:13that
01:13is very close to my heart. Love this one. Here is my favorite book of fiction. It's by Ann Tyler,
01:21who's one of my all-time, all-time favorite fiction writers. She tends to write honestly about just
01:27very ordinary women, typically living in Baltimore, which sounds very specific, but she really just
01:33writes about the life of an ordinary woman, which I actually find fascinating. And this particular book
01:38is called The Amateur Marriage, and it's basically about the span of a couple from growing up together
01:44all the way through, spoiler alert, their death, but it's not a spoiler, and just kind of all the kids
01:50they have, every single thing, the life that a couple goes through. It's wonderful. A book that is so
01:55deeply funny, but also amazingly poignant and incredibly powerful, this book by a woman I'm going to call
02:02friend, and I hope she would feel the same, Nicole Byer. It's called Hashtag Very Fat, Hashtag Very Brave,
02:08and it is so good, kind of Nicole taking photos all around Los Angeles. She's wearing different
02:14glorious bathing suits and doing hilarious things, and kind of has a meaningful message about how
02:20people have said to her, like, you're so brave for basically existing in the skin that you do,
02:26and I've felt that before too, and it's about kind of body positivity, but Nicole has such an amazing
02:31sense of humor that also has kind of a component to it, which I absolutely love. Every picture is just
02:37better than the last, and the subtitle is The Fat Girl's Guide to Being Hashtag Brave and Not a
02:44Dejected Melancholy Down in the Dumps Weeping Fat Girl in a Bikini. Amazing. This is my favorite kids
02:50book that I read when I was little. It's called The Hundred Dresses that my kids are about to get
02:56old
02:56enough to read. It's kind of young adult-ish, maybe like 11 years old. Great book about empathy,
03:03about a little girl who tells her classmates that she has 100 beautiful dresses, and the girl doesn't
03:09have a ton of money, and everyone makes fun of her and says that she's lying, but when they go
03:12over to her
03:13house, they find out that she has 100 beautiful watercolors that she's done of 100 different dresses,
03:19and it really affected me. I'm about to cry thinking about it when I was younger about keeping, kind of
03:25including
03:26people and not, I guess, not really bullying anyone and just being inclusive, so it's a great book.
03:32Last book is a parenting book. It's called The Early Riser Companion, but it says rhythms and rituals,
03:39traditions, and transitions for the first seven years of a child's life. So beautiful, and basically
03:46includes all these ideas for very small, inexpensive, beautiful rituals you can build into your family's
03:53life, and kind of building on this idea that we've lost a lot of ritual in our lives. I have
03:59no time,
03:59no patience, no energy for anything, but this book just gives you great ideas as a mom that are free
04:05and easy, so I love The Early Riser Companion. And I'm going to shout out one last book,
04:12which is an incredible book, and it's called Girl Underwater. It is a novel, it's Young Adult by Claire
04:18Kells, who also happens to be my incredibly talented sister-in-law, and it's a young adult novel.
04:25It has intrigue, it has mystery picture, kind of a sexy lost for young adults. Truly such an amazing
04:32book, and Oprah's O Magazine online rated it and said it was one of their best books. That's it.
04:39And what's this? I'm grabbing my own book again? Who put this here? This is crazy, guys.
04:47The Wreckage of My Presence is my book. I hope you enjoy it, and thank you so much for joining
04:53me in my
04:53home in front of my gorgeous bookcase. Thanks, Marie Claire.
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