Michael Merschel is an editor at the Dallas Morning News. He’s also written plays, contributed to A Prairie Home Companion and composed an out-of-office reply that appeared in The New York Times and on NPR. Although he was featured on Humans of New York, he lives in Texas with his wife and three kids, who tell him he is not all that funny, usually.

Michael’s new book, Revenge of the Star Survivors, is now available at fine booksellers near you.

Special thanks to Buzzbrews / Deep Ellum for providing us space to record this interview.

Recorded by Mark Noble, August 4, 2017.