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Danny Pellegrino
Newsweek US
|October 20, 2023
IF THERE'S ONE THING DANNY PELLEGRINO, HOST OF THE HUGELY POPULAR Everything Iconic podcast, is ready for, it's the holidays.
"I'm a festive person. I love decorating for whatever holiday it is. I'm a huge fan of table scaping." And after the success of his bestselling first book, How Do I Un-Remember This? Pellegrino decided to lean into his love for the holidays with his new book of essays, The Jolliest Bunch (Sourcebooks, October). "It focuses on the Christmas holidays, but there's a Halloween chapter in there, there's some Thanksgiving, all sorts of stuff." And it certainly wasn't difficult for Pellegrino to find sources of inspiration for the book. "The holidays are so filled with emotion that there's so many stories." He "just wanted to make sure that there was a balance of really funny, heartfelt and a little drama." It's the
This story is from the October 20, 2023 edition of Newsweek US.
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