And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on their Craft and the Industry
8 best books like And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on their Craft and the Industry (Mike Sacks): Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life, Women, Race, and Class, The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense, The Norton Anthology of American Literature: American Literature 1865-1914 (Volume C), The Residue Years, The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels, Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too!
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
| Author | Steve Martin |
| ISBN | 1416553649 |
In the midseventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This book is, in his own words, the story of "why I did stand-up and why I walked away."
Emmy and Grammy Award winner, author of the acclaimed...
| Author | Angela Y. Davis |
| ISBN | 0394713516 |
Incisive and concise, Women, Race, and Class charts the history of racial and gender oppression in America. In lucid prose Angela Davis breaks down how misogyny, racism, and classism have shaped the character of the nation’s social life from the Antebellum Era to the Sixties. She pays special attention...
The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones
| Author | Anthony Bourdain |
| ISBN | 1582344515 |
New York Times Bestseller
The good, the bad, and the ugly, served up Bourdain-style.
Bestselling chef and No Reservations host Anthony Bourdain has never been one to pull punches. In The Nasty Bits, he serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from...
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
| Author | Charles Bukowski |
| ISBN | 0876856830 |
Man, I wish you guys could see how banged-up and dog-eared my copy of "You Get So Alone" is. I think that's the only way I can do this collection justice. The poet as an older man lacks the vinegar and vitriol of his younger self, but being eight years from his death certainly infused these poems with the magnetic...
| Author | Nina Baym |
| ISBN | 0393978990 |
Why Norton? I'm glad you asked, friend! There are many schools of thought on anthologies, some negative, some positive, all fascinating. Of course, if you're buying this because it's a university textbook then really you have no choice; for the rest of us, there's more than meets the eye.
The...
| Author | Mitchell S. Jackson |
| ISBN | 1620400286 |
Mitchell S. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighborhood in America’s whitest city, Portland, Oregon. In the ’90s, those streets and beyond had fallen under the shadow of crack cocaine and its familiar mayhem. In his commanding autobiographical novel, Mitchell writes what it was to come...
| Author | Dashiell Hammett |
| ISBN | 0679722599 |
Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to physical pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. He is also the hero of most of the nine stories in this volume. The Op's one enthusiasm is doing his job, and in The Big Knockover...
This is the only screenwriting guide by two guys who have actually done it (instead of some schmuck who just gives lectures about screenwriting at the airport Marriott); “These guys are proof that with no training and little education, ANYONE can make it as a screenwriter” (Paul Rudd).
Robert...
