Amy Silverberg is the Most Popular Bisexual Jew in Orange County!

<p>On this episode of Yenta!, Raye Schiller and guest co-host Gloria Alexander sit down with comedian, writer, and author Amy Silverberg to talk about bisexuality, Jewish guilt, boyfriends—good boyfriends and bad— and the deeply humiliating experience of realizing you might actually be happier when you stop lying to yourself.</p><p>Amy gets <em>very</em> vulnerable about her new novel, <em>First Time, Long Time</em>, which she sold after just 30 pages and spent three years losing sleep over, and how writing it forced her to finally tell the truth about her sexuality, her relationship with her father, and all the complicated little contradictions that make up a person. She talks about growing up Jewish in Orange County (so random!), going to church with the Christian kids, joining a hot blonde sorority, secretly asking herself “Are you gay?” in the middle of the night, and eventually realizing that maybe there’s no need to choose a category at all.</p><p>Plus: Amy’s first-ever relationship with a woman, her very hot sports guy boyfriend, freezing her eggs, whether babies are compatible with an artistic career, why she’s obsessed with the gray area, the perils of social media, the shocking revelation that astrology apps are mostly written by writers making shit up, and the deeply unhinged story of a first date that ended with a mailbox full of shrimp tails.</p><p>Basically, this is an episode about being a person who is still figuring it the fuck out—which, honestly, same!</p><p><br></p><p>Chapters:</p><p>00:00 — Welcome to Yenta!<br>02:15 — Meet Amy Silverberg<br>05:10 — Selling a Novel on 30 Pages<br>08:42 — Writing Yourself Into the Truth<br>13:05 — “Are You Gay?”<br>17:30 — Growing Up Jewish in Orange County<br>21:15 — The Hot Blonde Sorority Years<br>25:40 — Bisexuality, Boyfriends &amp; Bad Decisions<br>31:10 — Dating a Woman for the First Time<br>36:25 — Do We Really Need to Come Out?<br>41:05 — Living in the Gray Area<br>46:20 — Jewish Guilt &amp; Contradictions<br>51:15 — Writer vs. Comedian<br>55:40 — The Problem With Social Media<br>59:30 — Freezing Your Eggs &amp; the Baby Question<br>01:05:10 — Is Astrology Made Up?<br>01:08:45 — The Oldest Dog in the World Gets Exposed<br>01:11:20 — The Shrimp Tail Date From Hell<br>01:15:00 — Amy’s Novel, Classes &amp; Where to Find Her</p>