Humour / Forme / Essais

How to Stay Bitter Through the Happiest Times of Your Life

de Anita Liberty

“I had a lot of bad dates. But I wrote a lot of good poems.”

So maintains Anita Liberty, the caustically funny New York City performance artist who was going along happily healing her hurt by hating and humiliating...

Are We Nearly There Yet?: A Family's 8000-Mile Car Journey Around Britain

de Ben Hatch

The story of a madcap five-month family trip to write a travel guide—embracing the freedom of the open road with a spirit of discovery and an industrial supply of baby wipes "Hurry up," I shout at Dinah,...

I Want You to Shut the F#ck Up: How the Audacity of Dopes Is Ruining America

de D.L. Hughley & Michael Malice

“Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is.” —Richard Nixon

“I believe America is the solution to the world’s problems.” —Rush Limbaugh

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Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media

de Nora Ephron

Two classic collections of Nora Ephron’s uproarious essays—tackling everything from feminism to the media, from politics to beauty products, with her inimitable charm and distinctive wit—now available...

The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life

de Laurie Notaro

“I’ve changed a bit since high school. Back then I said no to using and selling drugs. I washed on a normal basis and still had good credit.”

Introducing Laurie Notaro, the leader of the Idiot Girls’...

Mere Anarchy

de Woody Allen

“I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me.”–Woody Allen

Here, in his first collection since his three hilarious classics Getting Even, Without Feathers,...

Defending Happiness and other acts of bravery

de Amy Shea

"Defending Happiness, and Other Acts of Bravery" is a book about fighting for your bliss. The collection of stories demonstrates how one woman faced off with breast cancer, online dating, and motherhood, using...

What's Not to Love?: The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer

de Jonathan Ames

Perhaps all of Jonathan Ames’ problems–and the genesis of this hilarious book–can be traced back to the late onset of his puberty. After all it can’t be easy to be sixteen with a hairless “undistinguishable...

Don't Get Me Started

de Kate Clinton

Kate Clinton’s first book of irreverent humor

Let’s get one thing straight. I’m not. I’m out and proud. My closet was huge, complete with a foyer, turnstile, a few dead bolts, and a burglar alarm. It...

Horseshoes, Cowsocks & Duckfeet: More Commentary by NPR's Cowboy Poet & Former Large Animal Veterinarian

de Baxter Black

Baxter Black is “good, but indescribably weird,” observes the Dallas Morning News. “The dean of cowboy bards, and the Art Buchwald of the Stetson-and-Levi’s crowd,” raves the Christian Science Monitor....

Pot Stories for the Soul

de Paul Krassner

The pieces in Pot Stories for the Soul are funny, whimsical, bizarre, poignant, informational, shocking, and, yeah, soulful. They are about love, hate, escape, reality, the paranormal, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey,...

Free-Range Chickens

de Simon Rich

In his riotous debut collection, Ant Farm, Simon Rich found humor in some of life’s most desperate situations. Now this former editor of The Harvard Lampoon and current writer for Saturday Night Live has returned...

The Reluctant Metrosexual: Dispatches from an Almost Hip Life

de Peter Hyman

Peter Hyman wants the model/Fulbright Scholar girlfriend, the job with generous stock options and the well-appointed 2BR w/vu. Instead he routinely finds himself single and underemployed in his closet-free walk-up....

The Choke Artist: Confessions of a Chronic Underachiever

de David Yoo

In this brutally honest collection of often cringe-inducing episodes, David Yoo perfectly captures the cycle of failure and fear from childhood through adulthood. Whether he's wearing four layers of clothing...

The Suburban You: Reports from the Home Front

de Mark Falanga

You are about to discover that living in the suburbs is a whole lot funnier than you ever thought possible. For this country’s 145,892,494 (give or take) suburbanites, Mark Falanga is an utterly deadpan (and...

My Dining Hell: Twenty Ways to Have a Lousy Night Out

de Jay Rayner

I have been a restaurant critic for over a decade, written reviews of well over 700 establishments, and if there is one thing I have learned it is that people like reviews of bad restaurants. No, scratch that....

Tales from the Teachers' Lounge: An Irreverent View of What It Really Means To Be a Teacher Today

de Robert Wilder

From the critically acclaimed author of Daddy Needs a Drink—hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “consistently hilarious”—comes a series of irreverent, wickedly observant essays about what it really means...

Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood

de Laurie Notaro

The author of the New York Times bestseller The Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club tackles her biggest challenge yet: grown-up life.

In Autobiography of a Fat Bride, Laurie Notaro tries painfully to make the...

From Beer to Maternity

de Maggie Lamond Lamond Simone

For Maggie Lamond Simone, sarcasm was always a means of survival and words her weapon of choice. Her second-grade teacher worried about a child so flippant at such a tender age. Twenty years later, as a police...

Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism

de Dave Barry

The New York Times calls him “the funniest man in America,” and his legions of fans agree, laughing and snorting as they put his books on bestseller lists nationwide.

In Boogers Are My Beat, Dave gives us...