Quinn Cummings
Quinn Cummings is an Oscar-nominated actress (The Goodbye Girl) and the critically acclaimed author of Notes From The Underwire, Pet Sounds, and The Year of Learning Dangerously.
She created the seminal blog, The QC Report which evolved into the highly regarded “A Small Story” appearing regularly on Twitter. Quinn also hosts a podcast, Quinn Cummings Gives Bad Advice, now in its second season. Her writing has appeared in Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Alta Journal, Good Housekeeping, Los Angeles Magazine, and The Huffington Post. She lives in Los Angeles with her family and an assortment of pets.
Connect With Quinn
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Patreon
For the past few years, truly generous people have allowed me to write jokes, toss barbs, create nicknames, generally afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted. I can put together a respectable cocktail, give out Bad Advice, mix it up with a bully and, at least three times a week, I offer up a Small Story – all of which seem to bring some folks pleasure.
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Podcast
Quinn Cummings knows very little. This has never stopped her from giving advice. In each episode of Quinn Cummings Gives Bad Advice, Quinn boldly tries to solve problems that really should be handled by far more qualified people
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Social Media
For almost a decade, Quinn has used Social Media to stir up a bunch of shit. Her Twitter feed is not for the faint of heart — or the slight of brain. But it is funny. With each post she eviscerates the privileged clowns, craven thugs and flag-waving hucksters who populate the modern political landscape. “My job is to find a way to laugh at these numbskulls on a regular basis,” she says. “Otherwise, we’re forced to consider our world in their terms.”
A Little Gallery…

A little post-COVID elegance. That's my dad in the portrait over my shoulder. .

Headshot from the first agent composite. Age 7.

New mom at Sunnyside, Sleepy Hollow, NY.

With Anneke, at Candlewood Lake, Connecticut

Santa Monica garden portrait (photo credit: Clyde Smith.)

The cast of "Family". 1979

Book jacket, “The Year of Learning Dangerously”. Malibu, CA. (Photo credit: Howard Bock)
Mixology class.

An archive headshot; age: fifteen.

Seven years old. This is a photo from the first agent's "comp" sent out to casting directors.

A sunset portrait people seem to like. (Consort's favorite).

From the set of The Goodbye Girl with Herb Ross and Neil Simon. 1977

Book jacket portrait (Photo credit: Steven Lee Busby)

Method? Or madness?

On the set of The Goodbye Girl with Marsha Mason. 1977.
My Wii avatar, courtesy The Kid. Because why not

PowerPuff Quinn with Squeakers and Diana, courtesy of Anneke D. (Note the patterned yoga pants – a nice detail).

Lion momma, at the playground. (Consort's other favorite).

Chanel sweater...(Or close enough).