Discussing the Ineffable with the Greatest Everyman Actor of our Generation
Me and Ned Ryerson!… er, Stephen Tobolowsky, memoirist to memoirist.
Whether you know him from Groundhog Day, Glee, Silicon Valley, Mississippi Burning, or The Goldbergs, there’s no denying that Stephen Tobolowsky is one of our generation’s finest character actors. His memoir, My Adventures with God, is a first-person exploration of the notion that we can chart the arc of our lives by mapping them to the books of the Old Testament. It’s engaging in the same way that the author’s acting is engaging: his brushes with the “trailing radiance” of God, the occult, and a spate of insightful rabbis, are conveyed to us with a winning combination of intimacy, drama, universal particularism, and down-to-earth ordinariness.