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‘I Really Boxed Things Away’: ‘Pen15’ Creator Anna Konkle on Her Revealing New Memoir

Rolling Stone·Audrey Fromson·28 days ago
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The writer and actor spent years grappling with childhood shame, parental estrangement, and self-doubt. Now, she's made it to the other side and is sharing what she learned in The Sane One Anna Konkle knows what a 13-year-old sounds like.  Konkle is the co-creator of the 2019 Hulu series Pen15 , in which she and BFF Maya Erskine played versions of themselves as teens in the early 2000s. Konkle and Erskine’s co-stars? Actual teenagers.  The show developed a cult following capturing the comical and sometimes painful realities of teenagedom that are often shrouded in shame — discovering masturbation, asking out a class crush. Notably, the series honed in on family strife, and just as Konkle’s parents had in real life, her TV parents split up and quite literally divided the house in two.  Konkle’s memoir, The Sane One ( out today ), tackles these same themes. It’s a coming-of-age story charting personal growth and family dynamics — only this time, it’s not as seen on TV.…

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