Roz Chast and Patty Marx: Two-Minded Creature — Friendship as Creative Method
There are friendships that produce memories, and there are friendships that produce books, cartoons, fake awards, strong opinions about humming, and, eventually, a ukulele act. Roz Chast and Patty Marx—longtime contributors to The New Yorker—belong firmly to the second category.
Their comic machinery works differently. Marx likes to worry an idea past the point where a reasonable person might stop; Chast can locate an entire psychological condition in a face, a room, or an object. What they share is a radar for the moment ordinary life becomes ridiculous—and a habit of pushing each other’s…
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