Joyce Wadler

New York

Humorist at Freelance

I used to do it at The New York Times, now I do it on Substack.

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Articles

On Thanksgiving, I Miss My Family

Nov 26, 2024 | joycewadler.substack.com | Joyce Wadler

My grandmother, Gussie Belinsky Wadler, and my uncle, Artie, in 1950 in the Catskills. I grew up in the Catskills, in a fading resort town called Fleischmans, where the population in the 1950s exploded in summer with refugees from Hitler. There was, in fact, a story I came across on a Facebook group, that two sisters, who had assumed the other to have died in the concentration camps, discovered each other at the movies in Fleischmanns.
Gladiator Thanksgiving

Nov 25, 2024 | joycewadler.substack.com | Amy Byrnes |Joyce Wadler

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Madame Butterfly Waits for Her Indy Book Contract

Nov 14, 2024 | joycewadler.substack.com | Amy Byrnes |Joyce Wadler

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On Election Day, I Always Win

Nov 5, 2024 | joycewadler.substack.com | Amy Byrnes |Joyce Wadler

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"Vey iz mir, I Am in a Commercial for Trump, Talking Like Mine Grandmother."

Oct 24, 2024 | joycewadler.substack.com | Amy Byrnes |Joyce Wadler

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Rats Rejoice as Mandatory Composting Hits New York City

Oct 23, 2024 | joycewadler.substack.com | Joyce Wadler

“I detect a hint of rotting salmon skin, with a suggestion of moldy cottage cheese — 2% milkfat, I’d wager.” I don’t usually get into conversations with the rats in my Union Square neighborhood – no matter how charming they seem, it always ends up with, “Are you planning on finishing that hot dog?” But the other day one fat little rat was so excited he blocked my path. “Joyce, did you hear that mandatory composting has finally come to New York?” the rat says.
Illicit Youth Drug, "The Substance", Hawked on New York City Streets

Sep 25, 2024 | joycewadler.substack.com | Amy Byrnes |Joyce Wadler

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Trump Amends Helicopter Crash Story, Says He Was With Jimi Hendrix

Aug 10, 2024 | joycewadler.substack.com | Amy Byrnes |Joyce Wadler

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Trump Amends Helicopter Crash Story, Says He Was With Jimi Hendrix

Aug 10, 2024 | joycewadler.substack.com | Joyce Wadler

Presidential candidate Donald Trump, who is being ridiculed for claiming that he nearly crashed in a helicopter ride with Willie Brown, a former Mayor of San Francisco who is Black, clarified his remarks today at Mar-A-Lago. “Certain members of the radical leftist press — like Margaret Haberman, who has always had it out for me — are making up one crazy story after another,” Trump said. “They’re quoting Willie Brown, who says he never took a helicopter ride with me — like he would know.
Desperate Trump Team Unveils Kitten Videos

Jul 25, 2024 | joycewadler.substack.com | Amy Byrnes |Joyce Wadler

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