Giraffes? Giraffes!
8 best books like Giraffes? Giraffes! (Doris Haggis-on-Whey): Requiem for a Paper Bag: Celebrities and Civilians Tell Stories of the Best Lost, Tossed, and Found Items from Around the World, Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney's Book of Lists, How to Dress for Every Occasion by the Pope, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Ahab, McSweeney's #12, The Future Dictionary of America, B^F: The Novelization Of The Feature Film, McSweeney's #13
Requiem for a Paper Bag: Celebrities and Civilians Tell Stories of the Best Lost, Tossed, and Found Items from Around the World
| Author | Davy Rothbart |
| ISBN | 1416560548 |
This is the most disgustingly white upper-middle-class thing I have ever read.
The charming detritus that appears in each issue of Found is replaced here by unnecessarily long essays about encountering other people's cast-off stuff, nearly all of them capped off by some cloying moral about...
| Author | McSweeney's Publishing |
If a mountain man felt compelled to dance, how would he do it? If koala bears could talk, what would they say? And what’s the right pickup line, if you’re a necrophiliac? (Maybe “I’m pretty sure I’m not going to get you pregnant.”)
In the throes of debates like these, we’re lucky...
How to Dress for Every Occasion by the Pope
| Author | Daniel Handler |
| ISBN | 1932416412 |
Want to dress like the Pope? Well, why not? After all, the Pope is one of the most important people in the world, and gets invited to state dinners and stuff like that, and lives in an ornate place called the Vatican. You, meanwhile, are often dressed like a slob, and spend your days serving coleslaw. (Note:...
| Author | Gideon Defoe |
| ISBN | 0375423850 |
They’re back!!! The Pirate Captain and his irascible crew of scoundrels return in their soggiest saga yet.Fresh from their mishaps with Charles Darwin and the evil Bishop of Oxford, the Pirates set sail in a bouncy new vessel——purchased on credit. In order to repay his debts, the Pirate Captain...
| Author | Dave Eggers |
| ISBN | 1932416064 |
Issue 12 is made up of three parts. The first and largest section consists entirely of new writers -- new to us, probably new to you, and not even well-known by their own families.Part two is a new story from Roddy Doyle, featuring Jimmy Rabbitte of The Commitments.Part three is a collection of twenty-minute...
The Future Dictionary of America
| Author | Jonathan Safran Foer |
| ISBN | 1932416420 |
This book was conceived by Jonathan Safran Foer, Dave Eggers, Nicole Krauss, and the staff of McSweeney's as a way to bring over a hundred authors together to promote progressive causes in the November 2004 election. An imagining of what a dictionary might look like about thirty years hence, when the...
B^F: The Novelization Of The Feature Film
In 1984, George Gipe was contracted to write the novelization of the movie Back To The Future. He was supplied with a screenplay still in flux, writing his novelization even as the movie itself was being rewritten and as major roles were being recast (Michael J. Fox was not the first person to play Marty...
| Author | Chris Ware |
| ISBN | 0241142695 |
I would like to congratulate Dave Eggers for letting Chris Ware ruin what could have been one of the most memorable issues of McSweeney’s ever. Ware hates humanity and likes to force the reader to hate it too by making his texts completely inaccessible both emotionally and (sometimes) visually. The...
