Comedians Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak on the Healing Power of Friendship
Jacqueline Novak and Kate Berlant aren’t wellness gurus. Jacqueline Novak:Our friendship began in the belly of the beast that is stand-up comedy. Stand up is a weird, crass world. Photography by by Phylicia J. L. Munn Kate Berlant:Stand-up is different from when we started, honey. Now it’s for hot people. When we started, it was for nerds and the hideous. Photography by Phylicia J. L. Munn Then one day, it was like Jacqueline and I, seeing one another across the bar....