With richard brookhiser, Senior Editor of National Review at the New York Historical society. Everyone felt they knew her. And they did pretty much because she laid her life out for everybody to see. And she told us about what life was like in suburbia for women in the 1960s through the 1990s. And one of the wonderful things about her, you know, she wrote mainly humor, and it was schumer that was accessible to everyone. Because it was humor that happens to everyones lives but they might not recognize it until they saw it written on the page or in a newspaper column. Because funny things happen to us all the time, but we have to be out on the look out for them come and she was the one that focused our attention on the funny things that happen in the family, things that at the moment seem like craziness and driving you nuts, but when you look back at them you think that was really funny. So thats a real gift. Thats a literary gift. The life and times of erma bombeck this weekend as a boo