Deborah Copaken Kogan Biography

Deborah Copaken Kogan began her career as a Paris-based photojournalist covering conflicts in such war-torn areas as Afghanistan Israel and the former Soviet Union from 1988 to 1992 the subject of her best-selling memoir Shutterbabe. She then spent six years as an Emmy Award-winning television producer first for ABC News then at Dateline NBC. Her writing photography and documentary work have since appeared in many places including the New Yorker and the New York Times O The Oprah Magazine and on CNN. When she moved to Manhattan to raise a family and write she thought she'd left war battlefields behind. She was wrong. Hell is Other Parents (Hyperion) is a witty sanguine - and at times laugh-out-loud - romp through the landmines of modern working parenthood as Kogan continually finds herself at odds with the competitive aggressive and sometimes woefully misguided helicopter parents in her midst. A frequent performer with the New York-based storytelling group The Moth and with the LA-based comedy troupe Afterbirth she lectures at colleges and universities throughout the US.
An urban zoologist with a sense of humor Kogan charts the rich emotional terrain of the parenting landmine in her Hell is Other Parents hilarious talks and performances (part comedy part sobering discussion about the nature of parental interference and learning to let go). She is a fish out of today's millennial parenting water her feelings of inadequacy further exacerbated by her unsought role as stage mother to her actor son Jacob (young Spock in the recently released Star Trek film) a parenting universe so beyond normal it often veers toward science fiction. Kogan explores rough patches in her marriage struggles to pay her Manhattan rent on inadequate income raises an unexpected third child a decade after numbers one and two and tries to shrug off the sideways glances and judgmental comments she continually faces while shuttling her kids around the city on a Vespa.

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