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Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middleschool gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV.She has seen both these dreams come true.At last, Tina Fey's story ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's comingofage, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followedNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York Times USA Today San Francisco Chronicle NPR Esquire Newsday BooklistT...

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drugsoaked, addlebrained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken....

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Go the Fuck to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, California Book Awardwinning author Adam Mansbach's verses perfectly capture the familiar and unspoken trib...

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"The most fun I've had reading a book in ages."- Jane McGonigal

"I love the way the story weaves together so many complex and powerful forces that affect our lives and our relationships." - Michelle Obama

In this exuberantly praised book a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and ...

This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to write a long, thirdperson summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritativelike maybe someone who isn_x0092_t me wrote itbut I soon discovered that I_x0092_m not sneaky enough to pull it off conv...

The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing yearsexcept Biff, the Messiah's best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely hilarious yet heartfelt work "reminiscent of V...

Shrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't be funny. Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possiblelike a porcelain dove that will also have sex with youwriter and humorist Lindy West quickly d...

God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath_x0097_The Appalachian Trail.The 2,000plusmile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wilde...

Sometimes you just have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire. With We Are Never Meeting in Real Life., "bitches gotta eat" blogger and comedian Samantha Irby turns the seriocomic essay into an art form. Whether talking about how her difficult childhood has led to a problem in making "Adult," budgets, explaining why she should be the new Bach...

Meet Bridget Jones?a 30something Singleton who is certain she would have all the answers if she could: a. lose 7 pounds b. stop smoking c. develop Inner Poise"123 lbs. (how is it possible to put on 4 pounds in the middle of the night Could flesh have somehow solidified becoming denser and heavier Repulsive, horrifying notion), alcohol units 4 (e...

Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954. This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university who knows better than most that _x0093_there was no end t...

My Sister, the Serial Killer is a blackly comic novel about how blood is thicker and more difficult to get out of the carpet than water...When Korede's dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what's expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This'll be the third bo...

I_x0092_m awkward_x0097_and black. Someone once told me those were the two worst things anyone could be. That someone was right. Where do I startBeing an introvert (as well as _x0093_funny,_x0094_ according to the Los Angeles Times) in a world that glorifies cool isn_x0092_t easy. But when Issa Rae, the creator of the Shorty Awardwinning hit series The Misadventures of Awkwar...

Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn't seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now. Disarmed of falsehood, he was left only with the awful truth: John Hodgman is an older white male monster with bad facial hair, w...

In Gibbons's classic tale, a resourceful young heroine finds herself in the gloomy, overwrought world of a Hardy or Bronte novel and proceeds to organize everyone out of their romantic tragedies into the pleasures of normal life. Flora Poste, orphaned at 19, chooses to live with relatives at Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex, where cows are named Feckles...

A hilarious and affecting essay collection about race, gender, and pop culture from celebrated standup comedian and WNYC podcaster Phoebe Robinson.Phoebe Robinson is a standup comic, which means that, often, her everyday experiences become points of comedic fodder. And as a black woman in America, she maintains, sometimes you need to have a sense...

A memoir and manifesto from the comedian, hit podcast host, and star of United Shades of AmericaYou may know W. Kamau Bell from his critically acclaimed hit show on CNN United Shades of America. Or maybe you've read about him in the New York Times, which called him "the most promising new talent in political comedy in many years." Or maybe in the N...