DescriptionIn his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His world is alive with obscure desires and hidden motives, a world where forgiveness is automatic and an argument can be the highest form of love. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim is another unforgettable collection from one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today.
DescriptionMeet Ida LeClair. She lives in the small town of Mahoosuc Mills, Maine, with her husband, Charlie. Stories? She's got a double-wide mobile home full of them! Find out what happens when the husbands go off hunting for the weekend! Hear about the amazing adventures Ida and her friends, Celeste, Rite, Betty, Dot, and Shirley, have in "the Bonneville". You've heard of Maine humor Down East? Here's Maine humor from in-state, the heart of the North Country, where the women run with the moose!
DescriptionThis collection of essays observes the perils of motherhood, wifehood, selfhood, and other assorted challenges. Since its publication in 1957, it has sold millions of copies and has been adapted into a Broadway play, a film, a TV series, and now an audiobook. Jean Kerr's parodies of the clichéd 1950s prescription for glamorous or maternal feminine behavior still resonate today as we enter the 21st century.
DescriptionFrank Skinner is undoubtedly one of the funniest and most successful comedians appearing on British screens. Born Chris Collins in 1957, he grew up in the West Midlands where he inherited his father's passion for football, a West Bromich Albion supporter…
DescriptionIt's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind, says Roy Blount, Jr. in this witty collection of essays. With humor that's wry, dry, and warm, he delights and provokes us by confronting the reality of American life compared to the way we thought it would be. With his characteristic drawl (or "oral resonance, " as he calls it), he reflects on John Wayne, the federal deficit, women's underwear, and more.
DescriptionComic Lorna Landvik gives Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon a feminine perspective with her story about Patty Jane and Harriet Dobbin, two wacky Minnesota sisters. Patty Jane's downfall is to marry the gorgeous but irresponsible Thor Rolvaag. Before she can say "annulment, " a baby is on the way and Thor is gone, leaving Patty to rely on sister Harriet. It would be Patty Jane's entrepreneurial spirit that moves her to establish a beauty shop, her House of Curl, which evolves into a support group and community workshop over three tumultuous decades. Gently humorous and peopled with eccentric characters, Patty Jane's House of Curl is a heartwarming, deeply satisfying experience.
DescriptionAre you experienced? Well don't worry, just have a listen to this account of the curious life of cartoonist, painter and writer Lynda Barry, and you'll earn your stripes. The action takes place on 25th Avenue South in South Seattle, where Barry spent her early years, and in Wisconsin, where she was born to a Norwegian father and Filipino-Irish mother. Follow the adventures of Barry, creator of Ernie Pook's Comeek, National Public Radio commentator, and friend to Matt ( The Simpsons ) Groening. Some parts of her stories are invention, but they are all honest, touching, and comical.
DescriptionPlato sucks because the ideal world pales in comparison with the mysterious complexity of the real one. So writes Andrei Codrescu in this kaleidoscope of riffs and rants about the passions and nightmares of a poet at millennium's end. What does the collapse of communism and rise of nationalism in Eastern Europe look like from the perspective of this reporter who experienced it firsthand? How does a ceramicist and child of photographers view the origin myths of pottery and photography? From the mind of a brilliant thinker, these are stories that revel in the poetry, sexiness, and paradoxes of our time.
DescriptionWhoever said life is the stuff that happens while we're busy making plans could have listened to Tom Bodett's reflections on life. The marriages and divorces, the windfalls and calamities, the ups and downs that leave us gasping for breath; these are the events that tell us we're alive. And they are the experiences captured with Bodett's trademark warmth in comforting tales of the human condition. Bodett's radio programs, The End of the Road and Everyday People have entertained audiences around the country.
DescriptionIf you search for the word "coffee" in the Bible, if you're pretty sure that all the pairs of animals in Noah's Ark were married, and if you think tuna hotdish is okay but fishsticks are a little too ecumenical, you'll find humor in Growing Up Lutheran…
