Angela Nissel faces down grief with a laugh

Angela Nissel smiles through the pain. | Image: Angela Nissel Angela Nissel's latest book, Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead , is my kind of memoir. Sure, it's a deeply emotional tale about caring for a terminally ill parent.

But it's delivered with the sort of gallows humor that I often turn to to get me through tough times. Of course, that sort of dark humor should come as no surprise from Nissel. She first made a splash with The Broke Diaries , which grew out of a blog she kept in college detailing her daily struggles and, at times, embarrassment at being a broke student.

Eventually she went on to produce and write for hit shows including Scrubs and The Boondocks . One of her most lasting cont … Read the full story at The Verge.