Form - Essays
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Columns, Confessions and A Brain Cyst: Humor and Humorish Essays By Dave Schlenker
$19.99 Add to cartFlorida journalist Dave Schlenker has seen it all in his 34 years as a newspaper and magazine columnist. Yet he chose to waste valuable ink writing about owl vomit, headless pigeons, Erik Estrada and
- Author: Schlenker, Dave T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9798869188410
- Language: English
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Green World: A Tragicomic Memoir of Love & Shakespeare
$22.95 Read moreAt twenty-three, Michelle Ephraim was failing at everything. The only child of reclusive Holocaust-survivor parents who were dismayed by her literary studies, she found herself dumped by her boyfrien
- Series: Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction
- Author: Ephraim, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1625347820
- Language: English
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A Product of Genetics (and Day Drinking): A Never-Coming-Of-Age Story
$29.00 Read moreA frank, raucous, and bawdy collection of essays about coming of age through the oddest jobs, misadventures in queer love, and endearing parenting fails
This is a perfect book for a very imperfect g… [more below]- Author: Gutierrez, Jess H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0593475070
- Language: English
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Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes
$28.00 Add to cart“Laci Mosley is a hilarious and wise rule breaker and Scam Goddess reminds you there are many ways to ‘live your dream.'” –Amy Poehler
A delightfully subversive essay collection from Laci Mosley, ho- Author: Mosley, Laci
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0762484659
- Language: English
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Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics
$17.00 Read moreIn the tradition of his contemporary classic Parliament of Whores, renowned political humorist P. J. O’Rourke is back with Eat the Rich, in which he takes on the global economy. P. J. O’Rourke leads u
- Series: O’Rourke, P. J.
- Author: O’Rourke, P. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 23 1999
- ISBN10: 0871137607
- Language: English
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Butter in the Morning
$17.00 Add to cartA memoir, a history, and a sociology text all in the guise of a collection of essays. Through it all her outlook is one of hope, optimism, and humor-
- Author: Stamper, Georgia Green
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: December 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1936138549
- Language: English
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They Tore Out My Heart and Stomped That Sucker Flat
$11.95 Add to cartThey Tore Out My Heart and Stomped That Sucker Flat, first published in 1982, has sold more than 100,000 copies. Without skipping a beat, one of America’s favorite humorists, the late Lewis Grizzard, … [more below]
- Author: Grizzard, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1588382583
- Language: English
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Groucho Marx and Other Short Stories and Tall Tales: Selected Writings of Groucho MarxþAn
$29.98 Add to cartGROUCHO MARX AND OTHER SHORT STORIES AND TALL TALES: THE SELECTED WRITINGS OF GROUCHO M
- Series: Applause Books
- Author: Bader, Robert S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: October 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1557837910
- Language: English
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This Will Only Hurt a Little
$16.00 Add to cartA hilarious, heartfelt, and refreshingly honest memoir and New York Times bestseller by the beloved comedic actress known for her roles on Freaks and Geeks, Dawson’s Creek, and Cougar Town who has bec… [more below]
- Author: Philipps, Busy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1501184725
- Language: English
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Mortified: Real Words. Real People. Real Pathetic.
$24.99 Add to cartShare the shame.
In the days before blogs, teenagers recorded their lives with a pen in top-secret notebooks, usually emblazoned with an earnest, underlined plea to parents to keep away. Since 2002,- Author: Nadelberg, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 28 2006
- ISBN10: 1416928073
- Language: English
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Kansas GenExistential: Essays from the Heartland
$29.99 Add to cartCrack up or cry, Kansas GenExistential will take you on a ride! Have some snacks handy-and your hand fan if you’re in menopause-because you’ll be reading this book all at once.
Insightful and hilarious
- Author: Fraley, Amber
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: January 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1960462121
- Language: English
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The Bear in the Attic
$17.99 Add to cartThe beloved humorist and bestselling author returns with his most riotous collection of essays to date
Starting with his trademark outdoorsman’s wit, Patrick F. McManus’s newest collection ponders the- Author: McManus, Patrick F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0805072950
- Language: English
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Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-Bending, Celebrating America the Way It’s Supposed to Be — With an Oi
$18.00 Add to cartDriving Like Crazy celebrates cars and author P. J. O’Rourke’s love for them, while chronicling the golden age of the automobile in America. O’Rourke takes us on a whirlwind tour of the world’s most s… [more below]
- Author: O’Rourke, P. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 11 2010
- ISBN10: 0802144799
- Language: English
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Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories: And Other Disasters
$16.00 Read moreA bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana and the basis of the movie A Christmas Story.
“Mr. Shepherd has the true satirist’s grip on his pen: he is humorous, sympathetic, and ironic al… [more below]- Author: Shepherd, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0385116322
- Language: English
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Fast Funny Women: 75 Essays of Flash Nonfiction
$18.95 Add to cart“Every man should read this book.” –Jay Heinrichs, author of Thank You for Arguing
75 women writers, ages 20 to 89, were invited by editor Gina Barreca to make a party out of their life’s most unnerv
- Author: Barreca, Gina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1949116204
- Language: English
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No One Asked for This: Essays
$20.99 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. From writer/director Cazzie David comes a series of acerbic, darkly funny essays about anxiety, social media, misanthropy, and growing up in a wildly eccentric family.
For … [more below]- Author: David, Cazzie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0358197023
- Language: English
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Ask a Mexican!
$18.99 Add to cartFrom award-winning columnist and favorite talking head Gustavo Arellano, comes this explosive, irreverent, smart, and hilarious Los Angeles Times bestseller. Ask a Mexican! is a collection of question… [more below]
- Author: Arellano, Gustavo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1416540032
- Language: English
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Me vs. Brain: An Overthinker’s Guide to Life
$17.99 Add to cartIn her warm and witty debut about living with intrusive thoughts and anxiety, bestselling author Hayley Morris shows–with her signature sparkling humor and unflinching honesty–that being an overthin… [more below]
- Author: Morris, Hayley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1454953829
- Language: English
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Kansas GenExistential: Essays from the Heartland
$21.99 Add to cartCrack up or cry, Kansas GenExistential will take you on a ride! Have some snacks handy-and your hand fan if you’re in menopause-because you’ll be reading this book all at once.
Insightful and hilarious
- Author: Fraley, Amber
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: January 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1960462113
- Language: English
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Lies My Mother Told Me: Tall Tales from a Short Woman
$28.00 Read moreAs seen on The View and Good Morning America!
If you think Joan Rivers said funny, outrageous, and ridiculous things ONSTAGE, wait ’til you read the funny, outrageous, and ridiculous things she said- Author: Rivers, Melissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 12, 2022
- ISBN10: 1642937401
- Language: English
