Abrams Image, September 2011. Trade Paperback. 'Crap At My Parents' House' is a laugh-out-loud celebration of all the weird, odd, and unfathomably tacky stuff that our mums and dads accumulate without our knowledge or consent. More
Riverhead Trade, September 2006. Trade Paperback. The Areas of My Expertise is a lavish compendium of handy reference tables, fascinating trivia, and sage wisdom--all of it completely unresearched, completely undocumented and (presumably) completely untrue, fabricated by the illuminating, prodigious imagination of John Hodgman, certifiable genius. In an age when fake..... More
Viking, October 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. "[An] affecting and hilarious meditation on fame and prestige as seen through the lens of an airline loyalty program." --The AV Club A hilarious and honest new book in which John Hodgman, New York Times bestselling author of Vacationland, leaves vacation behind and gets..... More
Dutton Adult, November 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. John Hodgman-bestselling author, "The Daily Show"'s "Resident Expert," minor television celebrity, and deranged millionaire-brings us the third and final installment in his trilogy of Complete World Knowledge. In 2005, Dutton published "The Areas of My Expertise," a handy little book of Complete World..... More
Knopf, March 2020. Hardcover. "When I stop crying, I'm calling my mother immediately and making her read it." --Jodi Picoult "Comic lines as good as in any movie, and pathos as deep as in any novel" --Mike Birbiglia Bess Kalb, Emmy-nominated TV writer and New Yorker contributor, saved every voicemail..... More
Random House Inc, September 2003. Trade Paperback. From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, World War Z, The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything..... More
Bantam, January 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. In price clipped dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Orange end pages. Signed on title page. Muir was featured on the long running BBC/NPR radio show 'My Word.' The show continued to be Broadcast long after Muir passing in 1998..... More
Celadon Books, January 2020. Hardcover. The perfect Valentine's Day or anniversary gift: An illustrated collection of love and relationship advice from New Yorker writer Patricia Marx, with illustrations from New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. Everyone's heard the old advice for a healthy relationship: Never go to bed angry. Play hard..... More
The Experiment, September 2019. Hardcover. Heartfelt and humorous: An A to Z companion to growing older, filled with the unfiltered opinions and preoccupations of seniors today When do we become "senior"? At age sixty? At retirement? Or, the moment we can't do something that was previously simple? While there are..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2020. Hardcover. In Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics that will in no way unsettle your worldview. In essays both new and adapted..... More
Arcade Publishing, April 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Prioleau explores life at minimum wage after quitting his white-collar job as an advertising executive. Taking jobs such as a pizza deliveryman, ice cream scooper, construction worker, ER tech, fast food jockey and even a cowboy on a Montana ranch, he proves that..... More
Johns Hopkins University Press, July 2014. Hardcover. In this examination of stand-up comedy, Rebecca Krefting establishes a new genre of comedic production, "charged humor," and charts its pathways from production to consumption. Some jokes are tears in the fabric of our beliefs--they challenge myths about how fair and democratic our..... More
Back Bay Books, June 2019. Paper Back. David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book. If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong. When he buys a beach house..... More
Back Bay Books, June 2001. Trade Paperback. A recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of "Naked," presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about his hilarious attempt to learn French. A number one national bestseller now in paperback. More
St Martins Pr, September 1997. Hardcover. A portrait of one of America's most influential comedians analyzes the complex, sometimes disturbing world of Jerry Lewis, from his rise to fame and his philanthropic work to the dark side of his career and personal life. More
Little, Brown and Company, November 2019. Hardcover. One of Vanity Fair's Great Quarantine Reads: Step into Jenny Slate's wild imagination in this "magical" (Mindy Kaling), "delicious" (Amy Sedaris), and "poignant" (John Mulaney) New York Times bestseller about love, heartbreak, and being alive -- "this book is something new and wonderful"..... More
Little, Brown and Company, November 2019. Hardcover. One of Vanity Fair's Great Quarantine Reads: Step into Jenny Slate's wild imagination in this "magical" (Mindy Kaling), "delicious" (Amy Sedaris), and "poignant" (John Mulaney) New York Times bestseller about love, heartbreak, and being alive -- "this book is something new and wonderful"..... More
Melville House, July 2010. Hardcover. Here, a polar bear and Leonardo diCaprio try to go green in Hollywood in an outrageous tale told through edgy text and illustrations. More
Three Rivers Press, March 1999. Paper Back. "The Onion" has quickly become the world's most popular humor publication, misinforming half a million readers a week with one-of-a-kind social satire both in print (on newsstands nationwide) and online from its remote office in Madison, Wisconsin. Witness the march of history as..... More
MAD, May 2019. Paper Back. As we enter the second half of President Donald Trump's interminable, unimpeachable reign, MAD feels it's high time to commemorate our steady slide into annihilation with a brand-new collection of caricature, mockery, and ridicule: MAD About the Trump Era. In this sequel to the best-selling..... More
Nonpareil Books, March 2019. Paper Back. Loosely modelled on a 1937 account of Bill Tilman's Nanda Devi expedition, The Ascent of Rum Doodle riotously parodies the familiar tropes of 1950s mountaineering literature. Bowman's intrepid cast of characters may come from all walks of life, but are similarly at a loss..... More
G.P. Putnam's Sons, October 2017. Hardcover. "Whitney Cummings has written a book about being, well, not fine--and what to do when you find yourself with brutal anxiety and a co-dependency disorder; all in her trademark wit, humor, and honesty. This book, however, is fine as hell."--Sophia Amoruso, author of #Girlboss..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, June 2007. Trade Paperback. Comprising the classic bestsellers Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Side Effects, this definitive collection of comic writings is from a man who needs no Introduction. Really-this book has no Introduction. The Insanity Defense reveals many sides of Woody Allen as he holds..... More
