Black Humor
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
$18.99 Add to cart“An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level–political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous.” —Newsweek
“The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, al
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: 7-Apr-99
- ISBN10: 0060932147
- Language: English
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Jailbird
$18.00 Add to cart” Kurt Vonnegut] has never been more satirically on-target. . . . Nothing is spared.”–People
Jailbird takes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in gover- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: 12-Jan-99
- ISBN10: 0385333900
- Language: English
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Venomous Lumpsucker
$18.00 Add to cart- Author: Beauman, Ned
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1641294841
- Language: English
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You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grant
$16.99 Add to cartTaking the accessible, pop history of Coe’s You Never Forget Your First and adding a healthy dose of nerdy, punk humor, You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grant is for both history and humor readers alike. This
- Author: Neely, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: January 23, 2024
- ISBN10: 1684429765
- Language: English
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Cheap Therapist Says You’re Insane
$15.00 Add to cartParker Young’s short stories and flash fictions combine humor, anxiety, and pathos as they walk a razor’s edge between the absurd and compelling human stakes.
Cheap Therapist Says You’re Insane is a de
- Author: Young, Parker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: May 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1892061953
- Language: English
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The Masters of Atlantis
$17.00 Add to cartMasters of Atlantis is a cockeyed journey into an America of misfits and con men, oddballs, and innocents, by one of America’s most respected novelists, #1New York Times bestselling author Charles Por… [more below]
- Author: Portis, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1585670219
- Language: English
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The House of God
$24.00 Add to cartBy turns heartbreaking, hilarious, and utterly human, The House of God is a mesmerizing and provocative novel about what it really takes to become a doctor.
“The raunchy, troubling, and hilarious nove- Author: Shem, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0425238091
- Language: English
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Lament for Julia: And Other Stories
$16.95 Add to cartA celestial overseer observes–and is continually confounded by–a young woman’s path into adulthood in this uncanny and darkly humorous novel, unpublished until now and accompanied by a selection of … [more below]
- Author: Taubes, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1681376946
- Language: English
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Women
$17.99 Add to cart“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”–Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author
“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”–Leonard Cohen, songwriter
Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henr
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: 29-Jul-14
- ISBN10: 0061177598
- Language: English
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We All Want Impossible Things
$26.99 Add to cart“Catherine Newman sees the heartbreak and comedy of life with wisdom and unflinching compassion. The way she finds the extraordinary in the everyday is nothing short of poetry. She’s a writer’s writer
- Author: Newman, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0063230895
- Language: English
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Charles Portis: Collected Works (Loa #369): Norwood / True Grit / The Dog of the South / Masters of Atlantis / Gringos / Stories & Other Writings
$45.00 Add to cartThe ultimate Portis: for the first time in one collector’s volume, the complete fiction and collected nonfiction of the author of True Grit
Summer reading recommendation in THE WASHINGTON POST, THE WA- Author: Portis, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1216
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1598537466
- Language: English
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You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grant: A Farcical Biography
$32.99 Add to cartTaking the accessible, pop history of Coe’s You Never Forget Your First and adding a healthy dose of nerdy, punk humor, You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grant is for both history and humor readers alike. This
- Author: Neely, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 23, 2024
- ISBN10: 1684429757
- Language: English
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Sly Fox Hollow
$17.99 Add to cartWilliam “Bomber” Merridan is a small-town grocery store manager by day and a monster hunter by night. While Bigfoot is sexier, Bomber’s passion is for the legendary Michigan Dogman.
Connie Hayes is Fo
- Author: Allen, Brett T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: August 08, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988115205
- Language: English
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Normal Women
$17.00 Read moreIn this darkly comic story about how we value female labor–and don’t–a new mother becomes embroiled in danger when her friend, a controversial entrepreneur, goes missing.
When her daughter Lotte was- Author: Hogarth, Ainslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0593467043
- Language: English
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Berlin
$19.00 Add to cartA New York Times Editor’s Choice
“Cinematic and confessional–electric.” –The New York Times “Written in funny, punchy vignettes perfect for consumption between U-Bahn stops, and a few hours in the p- Author: Setton, Bea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 014313762X
- Language: English
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The Girls
$19.00 Add to cartA wry, macabre tale of simple country living, brutal murder, and a reasonably happy couple, from our “most startlingly offbeat suspense novelist” (Gore Vidal).
In their lovely old Cotswolds village, J- Author: Bowen, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1946022705
- Language: English
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Help Wanted
$28.99 Add to cartEvery day at 3:55 a.m., members of Team Movement clock in for their shift at big-box store Town Square in a small upstate New York town. Under the eyes of a self-absorbed and barely competent boss, th
- Author: Waldman, Adelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 05, 2024
- ISBN10: 132402044X
- Language: English
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The Cleaner
$27.99 Add to cart“So inappropriately fun to read.” –Booklist, starred review
“Welcome to the office building at night, an eerie ship helmed by one woman desperate for connection.” —Julia Fine, author of Maddalena and … [more below]
- Author: Wells, Brandi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1335018107
- Language: English
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Really Good, Actually
$18.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
“Every sentence of Monica Heisey’s writing is a treat. No one makes me laugh like she does.” –Dolly Alderton, New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Know About Love
Recom
- Author: Heisey, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 0063235420
- Language: English
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Post Office
$20.99 Add to cartCharles Bukowski’s classic roman ? clef, Post Office, captures the despair, drudgery, and happy dissolution of his alter ego, Henry Chinaski, as he enters middle age.
Post Office is an account of Bukow
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0061177571
- Language: English
