Sona Movsesian spent more than fifteen years turning her job as Conan O’Brien’s assistant into a running comedy bit, then became the dependably unimpressed co-host of “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend.” Her second book, The World’s Worst Mom, moves the same proudly underachieving philosophy into parenthood. Released two days before this appearance, it trades polished supermom mythology for twin-boy chaos, WebMD spirals, minivan jokes and the comforting suspicion that nobody knows what they’re doing. Movsesian discusses the book with author and cultural critic Ruth Whippman, whose book, BoyMom, examined the pressures shaping modern boyhood. It should be a sharply funny meeting of maternal minds.
Thu, Sept 3, 7pm, $12-$22
Kepler’s Books, Menlo Park
