Sara Benincasa, Erin Petti and Maria Ciampa

Brookline Booksmith 

Former Emerson student Sara Benincasa had more serious problems to deal with than dodging the herds of skinny-jeaned emo kids smoking outside on her way to class every morning. Most days, it was a struggle to go to class at all. Benincasa had agoraphobia (check out Thomas Page McBee's recent interview) a subject she deftly tackles with humor and self-awareness in her memoir Agorafabulous! Dispatches From My Bedroom (William Morrow). Now recovered — and an acclaimed comedian, talk-show host , and author whose garnered props from the likes of the New York Times and Margaret Cho — Benincasa is back in town to discuss the book.

Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom reading and discussion