{"id":3313,"date":"2026-08-02T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/angela-nissel-faces-down-grief-with-a-laugh\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T00:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T20:15:00","slug":"angela-nissel-faces-down-grief-with-a-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/angela-nissel-faces-down-grief-with-a-laugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Angela Nissel faces down grief with a laugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Angela Nissel\" data-caption=\"Angela Nissel smiles through the pain. | Image: Angela Nissel\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Angela Nissel\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/Angela-Nissel_Author-Headshot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tAngela Nissel smiles through the pain. | Image: Angela Nissel\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Angela Nissel&rsquo;s latest book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0063345110?lv=shuf&amp;channelId=500&amp;plpRedirect=mhFallback\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>is my kind of memoir. Sure, it&rsquo;s a deeply emotional tale about caring for a terminally ill parent. But it&rsquo;s delivered with the sort of gallows humor that I often turn to to get me through tough times. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, that sort of dark humor should come as no surprise from Nissel. She first made a splash with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Broke-Diaries-Completely-Hilarious-Misadventures\/dp\/0679783571\/ref=pd_lpo_d_sccl_2\/147-6007463-8645753?pd_rd_w=CWait&amp;content-id=amzn1.sym.4c8c52db-06f8-4e42-8e56-912796f2ea6c&amp;pf_rd_p=4c8c52db-06f8-4e42-8e56-912796f2ea6c&amp;pf_rd_r=774AS2NSH8H4533PAGJK&amp;pd_rd_wg=fzM79&amp;pd_rd_r=9e261540-4291-47ee-aef2-c0466f6b286c&amp;pd_rd_i=0679783571&amp;psc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Broke Diaries<\/em><\/a>, which grew out of a blog she kept in college detailing her daily struggles and, at times, embarrassment at being a broke student. Eventually she went on to produce and write for hit shows including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulu.com\/series\/bba197b5-eb03-4a09-b5f6-f04c053471d7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Scrubs<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbomax.com\/shows\/boondocks\/c43c65e7-49fe-4795-9e13-759bad094a78?utm_source=universal_search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Boondocks<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of her most lasting cont \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/report\/974226\/angela-nissel-interview-good-grief-pass-the-bread-mom-is-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angela Nissel smiles through the pain. | Image: Angela Nissel Angela Nissel&rsquo;s latest book, Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}