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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    John Hodgman on privilege and pain

    If you have a vacation home in beautiful western Massachusetts, you’re lucky. If you then buy another vacation home on the coast of Maine, it sounds like your cup runneth over. But comedian and author John Hodgman manages to find the downsides of all this good fortune in his latest book.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Nov 2, 2017 • 1 min read

    If you have a vacation home in beautiful western Massachusetts, you’re lucky. If you then buy another vacation home on the coast of Maine, it sounds like your cup runneth over. But comedian and author John Hodgman manages to find the downsides of all this good fortune in his latest book.

    A potrait of John Hodgman by Aaron Draplin. Book cover by Viking/Penguin Books

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