5/11/2023 0 Comments Maria semple new book![]() ![]() Her new book, “Today Will Be Different,” can be outrageously funny. (“Mad About You” and “Arrested Development” are her best-known credits.) But delivering laughs does not turn out to be her primary purpose as a novelist. Semple’s job as a writer of high-end television comedy. ![]() It also delivered wall-to-wall hilarity, which had been part of Ms. For anyone who needs reminding, it was a novel that skewered all things Seattle used an epistolary format to riotous advantage took a huge whack at Microsoft’s corporate culture made terrific fun of the Mom Wars at an especially ridiculous grade school and guaranteed that you, the reader, would never look at a blackberry bush in quite the same way. Maria Semple’s “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” was the kind of instant classic that earns its author a loyal readership in perpetuity. ![]()
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