Jenny Slate

JENNY SLATE IS READY TO BE HERSELF

- H. Alan Scott

"I THINK WHAT IS [EVIDENT] IN my work is that through my own journey, not just through motherhood, but my own connection with myself as a developing artist, is that I just don't feel myself flailing anymore." She's writing about this confidence in her new book of essays Lifeform (Little, Brown and Company, October 22), which depicts her unique journey into motherhood. She began writing the book out of a fear for losing her old self: "Just wanting to hold on to a life, my professional life and my identity within that, because I was very newly pregnant." She found that it wasn't her old self she was looking for, but this new person. "I feel that I increasingly have things to say, but really little to prove. And that is such a different