Mirth of a Nation: The Best Contemporary Humor
10 best books like Mirth of a Nation: The Best Contemporary Humor (Michael J. Rosen): Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure, The Best American Short Stories 2004, Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Goodbye!, Shiny Adidas Tracksuits and the Death of Camp and Other Essays from Might Magazine, Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos, Secrets of the Cat, Artists, Writers, Thinkers, Dreamers: Portraits of Fifty Famous Folks & All Their Weird Stuff, The Day I Turned Uncool: Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-up, Leave the Building Quickly: True Stories, Coyote v. Acme
| Author | Tim Cahill |
| ISBN | 1932361448 |
Yikes, just when I had read one in this series that rated average, it slipped back down to below average again. And to add insult to injury, this book shared some stories with some of their other books that I've read (Whose Panties are These, Sand in my Bra, and more). I mean, if you don't have time enough to...
| Author | Lorrie Moore |
| ISBN | 0618197354 |
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection...
Forget Faludi--Cynthia Heimel has been telling her readers about the "backlash" for years, and about its pernicious effects not only on the psyches of women but also on the lives of men, children, cats, and dogs. This collection confirms how indispensible she has become as a guide through the maelstrom...
| Author | Might Magazine |
| ISBN | 0425164772 |
Prepare yourself for the best and brightest from Might magazine. These provocative accounts of cultural chaos tackle every tacky and/or annoying issue that has made the 20th century so ripe for the Apocalypse -- from the lost diaries of H.R. Haldeman to David Hasselhoff's world tour. Includes: "The...
Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos
| Author | Kim Addonizio |
| ISBN | 0446679046 |
As a tattooed woman always searching for more literature on tattoos, I was looking forward to delving into this book. As with any anthology or collection of essays, the quality of the pieces is varied.
It is difficult to convey art in words and that's what tattoos are--art permanently inscribed...
| Author | Barbara Holland |
| ISBN | 0804112762 |
A lively appreciation of cats from tip to tail, this witty analysis considers everything we think we know about cats, and offers something new, too. Meet cats in high places such as Winston Churchill's ginger tom, who attended cabinet meetings, and Teddy Roosevelt's cat, Slippers, who came to dinner....
Artists, Writers, Thinkers, Dreamers: Portraits of Fifty Famous Folks & All Their Weird Stuff
| Author | James Gulliver Hancock |
| ISBN | 1452114560 |
This cultural who's-who illuminates 50 famous figures, from Leonardo da Vinci to Coco Chanel, through the fascinating trivia of their lives. Artist James Gulliver Hancock depicts historical icons in quirky annotated portraits surrounded by their associated possessions, baggage, and foibles....
The Day I Turned Uncool: Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-up
| Author | Dan Zevin |
| ISBN | 0812967224 |
Sooner or later, each of us must face the day we develop a disturbing new interest in lawn care; the day we order sauvignon blanc instead of Rolling Rock; the day we refuse to see any concert where we cannot sit down. Sooner or later, each of us must face the day we turn uncool.
Dan Zevin, who “was...
Leave the Building Quickly: True Stories
| Author | Cynthia Kaplan |
| ISBN | 0060548517 |
Do you know why a race-car driver wears epaulets despite the fact that epaulets would seem in every way contrary to the aesthetic of a race-car driver? It's so that in the event of a crash he may be pulled from the flaming wreckage of his car.
Yes, she's back. Cynthia Kaplan, acclaimed author of...
| Author | Ian Frazier |
| ISBN | 0374524912 |
When Ian Frazier's first collection of humorous essays, Dating Your Mom, was published in 1986, Time's reviewer Paul Gray called it "hilarious" and warned readers to" read sparingly... By 1996 another collection may appear." And he was rights. Frazier's new collection, Coyote v. Acme, includes...
| Author | Dave Eggers |
| ISBN | 1932416528 |
I had bad luck with this one, because the first few stories I read were the weakest in the book. But after some more hopping around, I have to say this is one of my favorite issues of the Quarterly. The art was always interesting and some of the stories were really fantastic. Although most of the stories fall...
Post-It Note Diaries: 20 Stories of Youthful Abandon, Embarrassing Mishaps, and Everyday Adventure
| Author | Arthur Jones |
| ISBN | 0452296978 |
Personal stories from an all-star lineup-immortalized in beautiful, black Sharpie(r). When Arthur Jones cocreated a reading series centered around ubiquitous Post-Its(r), the series struck a chord. It grew in popularity and was ultimately featured on a This American Life live simulcast broadcast...
The Heath Anthology of American Literature: Volume D: Modern Period, 1910-1945
| Author | Paul Lauter |
| ISBN | 0618533001 |
Unrivaled diversity and teachability have made The Heath Anthology a best-selling text since the publication of its first edition in 1989. In presenting a more inclusive canon of American literature, The Heath Anthology continues to balance the traditional, leading names in American literature...
My Life, Volume II: The Presidential Years
| Author | Bill Clinton |
| ISBN | 1400096731 |
President Bill Clinton’s My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public.
It shows us the progress of a remarkable American, who, through...
Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism
| Author | Bob Edwards |
| ISBN | 0471477532 |
Get it, read it, and pass it on.
--Bill Moyers""Most Americans living today never heard Ed Murrow in a live broadcast. This book is for them I want them to know that broadcast journalism was established by someone with the highest standards. Tabloid crime stories, so much a part of the lust for ratings...
Rotten English: A Literary Anthology
| Author | Dohra Ahmad |
| ISBN | 0393329607 |
"Rotten English" spans the globe to offer an overview of the best non-standard English writing of the past two centuries, with a focus on the most recent decades. During the last twelve years, half of the Man Booker awards went to novels written in non-standard English. What would once have been derogatorily...
Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing
| Author | Edgar V. Roberts |
| ISBN | 0205000347 |
Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, Compact Edition is founded on the principles of writing about literature. It is not an afterthought and it is not treated as a separate chapter or appendix; but rather, it is the carefully integrated philosophy of Professor Roberts' approach to...
The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss
| Author | Jonathan Lethem |
| ISBN | 0375706615 |
Jonathan Lethem is perhaps our most active literary voice mining the genre margins of our culture. In this unique collection he creates an anthology that no one else could. He draws on the work of such unforgettables as Julio Cortazar, who presents a man caught between the ancient and modern...
| Author | Lynda Barry |
| ISBN | 0060965053 |
I'd seen Lynda Barry's "Marlys" comics in the Funny Times newspaper, which is why I checked this book out of the library. This book is a sort of coming-of-age story told in comic-strip form. (It actually is more like a series of comic strips than a graphic novel; I suspect they were originally published...
Akbar and Jeff's Guide to Life
| Author | Matt Groening |
| ISBN | 0679726802 |
Matthew Abram Groening is an American cartoonist, television producer and writer from Portland, Oregon.
Groening is best known as the creator of The Simpsons. He is also the creator of Futurama and the author of the weekly comic strip Life in Hell. Groening distributed Life in Hell in the book...
