Bio & Press
Jane Borden is an author, freelance journalist, and comedian. Her first book, a memoir in essays, titled I Totally Meant to Do That, was published by Crown in March 2011. Vanity Fair called it “affectionate” and New York Magazine deemed it “lowbrow-brilliant.” The Brooklyn Paper announced Borden as “the new ‘It’ girl.”
Her humorous writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine and Modern Bride, in two anthologies, and on Saturday Night Live and on VanityFair.com. And as a comedian, she’s appeared on Comedy Central and VH1, and performs regularly at storytelling and stand up shows, and in festivals.
Borden was a staff editor at Time Out New York for seven years, predominantly covering comedy and theater, and health and wellness. She appeared regularly on local morning news programs (NBC, Fox, CW) as a guest expert. And she got to interview several of her heroes (Ricky Gervais, Christopher Guest, Joan Rivers, and Garrison Keillor, among many others).
Want to invite Jane to read, perform, teach a storytelling workshop, or be friends? Contact her at jane@janeborden.com
Press
“Funny, epic tales”
“Affectionate.”
“Lowbrow-brilliant”
“Country mouse, meet city rat.”
Marie Claire
“Borden details her difficulties with humor.”
“Part cautionary tale, part celebration, it establishes Borden as a worthy successor to Fredericksburg’s estimable Florence King.”
“What makes Borden so engaging is her ribald sense of humor and disarming sincerity.”
“They’re like those island species of birds that you can walk right up to, because they’ve never been taught to fear, because they’ve never had natural predators.”
“Her humor relies less on gags than on situations.”
“Hilarious…When Borden laughs, she laughs with love.”
“Refreshingly, the one topic she avoids is love, which ironically makes her book easy to love.”
Bust Magazine
“Jane Borden is about to become the new “It” girl of Brooklyn literature.”
“The unusual amalgam makes for funny cultural explorations, and that’s what you get with her debut book.”
“A delicious dance between two vastly different cultures she hilariously chronicles…”
“I Totally Meant to Do That is a must-read for displaced Southerners everywhere.”
“TONY’s Comedy editor balances hip and home in her witty, autobiographical essays.”
Excerpt in Time Out New York
“fantastic…Every NY transplant should read it.”
“Borden’s powers of observation and sharp wit combine to create an informative slice of the sociological pie…highly recommended reading.”
“Borden has a gift for musicality and idiom.”
Press Contact
Justina Batchelor
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