Kategoria BISAC: Humor >> Form - Essays

He's one of the funniest five people on the planet. But his real gift goes beyond even that. James magically takes us with him, wherever he's going. Places I never thought to explore. Locked in a shark cage, marching up the steps of a courthouse, trying to escape a Chinese brothel-we are there with him.

-Glynn Washington, host of NPR's Snap Judgment

James Judd has made audiences laugh for years on National Public Radio's Snap Judgment, an award-winning storytelling program. Now he's collected eleven of his most popular stories in a book that will thrill...

Meet Halcombe Hackney Norilsk, a unique personage that dreams so big he travels throughout the world in order to be famous because he thinks he deserves it. As his Russian hometown (Norilsk) has been officially selected the worst place in the world to live several times; he wants to prove he can attain anything, becoming a household name despite his origins. However, reality proves otherwise. In fact, his life in Norilsk was better than expected.

After reading his humorous adventures, you can discover an array of very interesting pieces of writing with regards to topics such as...

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 serio-comic 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 Bachelorette--she's "35-ish, but could easily pass for 60-something"--detailing a disastrous pilgrimage-slash-romantic-vacation to Nashville to scatter her estranged father's ashes, sharing...

Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay * Nominated for "Best Memoir & Autobiography" by Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 * Named a "Best Book of the Year" by New York Post

"You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll want to read it again." --TheSkimm

"I'm mad Jennifer's Weiner's first book of essays is as wonderful as her fiction. You will love this book and wish she was your friend." --Mindy Kaling, author of Why Not Me?...

This is Limmy's second book.

It's a whole load of new, odd, and hilariously grim short stories.

Tom is in a soft play with his daughters. He's bored. He's so bored he can move things with his mind.

A man fills up a mate's biscuit tin without ever telling him, to see what happens.

Maggie's boyfriend Iain bought a curtain. It keeps attacking them. She wants it out the house.

A man is sitting in his wheelie bin at two in the morning, and he wants to tell you why.

Kenny's mate Scott is suicidal and ridden with guilt. Kenny takes him on holiday to Benidorm....

When Norm Macdonald, one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time, was approached to write a celebrity memoir, he flatly refused, calling the genre "one step below instruction manuals." Norm then promptly took a two-year hiatus from stand-up comedy to live on a farm in northern...

It was long my contention that if anyone should take the time to write about 62,000 consecutive words (about the size of an average book) off the top of his/her head, a reader could learn a great deal about the writer and the writer could learn even more about him/her self.

When I got into it, I discovered consecutive words turned into arbitrary essays, some humorous, some autobiographical, some philosophic. Since that's the way it came out I decided to leave it. The writing may not always be terrific but for me the essays are worth...