Attempting NormalBy: Marc Maron NATIONAL BESTSELLER Marc Maron is a master of spinning humor out of anguish (Bookforum), even when that anguish is pretty clearly self inflicted. In Attempting Normal, he threads together twenty five stories from his life and near death, from his first comedy road trips (with a fugitive junkie comic with a missing tooth) to his love affair with feral animals (his cat rescues are bloody epics) to his surprisingly moving tales of lust,