Joan Rivers television critic Jack Gould called Rivers "quite possibly the most intuitively funny woman alive". In 2017, "Rolling Stone" magazine ranked her sixth on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time, and in October the same year, she was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame. Joan Alexandra Molinsky was born on June 8, 1933, in Brooklyn, New York, to Russian Jewish immigrants Beatrice (née Grushman) and Meyer C. Molinsky. She had an elder sister named Barbara Waxler. Rivers spent her early life in Prospect Heights and Crown Heights in Brooklyn, where she attended the progressive
How It Is the world as mud ("E fango è il mondo") and therefore, a kind of purgatory, as well as Dante's image of souls gulping mud in the Stygian marsh of the "Inferno" (Canto VII, 109–126, in Palma's translation): Dante's Belacqua and his foetal position also are referenced in "How It Is" and the following quotation is an example of the work's unpunctuated, dense, and poetic style: The novel served as inspiration for Miroslaw Balka's 2009 work, "How It Is", in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. How It Is How It Is is a novel by Samuel Beckett first published in French as