On August 3, 2009, Justin Halpern—a twenty-eight-year-old comedy writer who had moved back in with his parents following a breakup—started “Shit My Dad Says,” a Twitter feed that documents the musings, philosophical and otherwise, of Halpern’s septuagenarian father, Sam (example: “A parent’s only as good as their dumbest kid. If one wins a Nobel Prize but the other gets robbed by a hooker, you failed.”) The feed was an instant hit, and now has more than 1.3 million followers. It has also become an empire of sorts for Halpern, who has co-written a TV pilot that stars William Shatner in the role of his father, and published a collection of essays on just what it was like to grow up as Sam Halpern’s son. Recently, Halpern took the time to answer some of my questions on his dad, writing, and William Shatner. Read more at newyorker.com…
Shit My Dad Says (the Book)
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I’m the deputy managing editor at strategy + business, a freelance editor at Belt, and the former web manager at The New Yorker. My writing and editing also has appeared in The New York Times, The Independent, the Observer, the Rumpus, the Cleveland Clinic Press, and Northern Ohio Live. Additionally, I was a founding team member of Maven, a healthcare app for women. I live in Brooklyn with my husband, the musician and writer Mike Errico, and our daughter. Follow me @sally_errico. View more posts