Kategoria BISAC: Humor >> Form - Essays

Freedman is no James Thurber, but neither is Dave Barry. In fact, his readers have favorably compared Freedman with Barry, but his style is more thought provoking...

Drawn from years of hilarious and thoughtful travelogues he wrote as a communications consultant, author Paul Heagen provides intriguing insights into communications in business and life as you journey with him when he learns: The generosity of a toothless fruit vendor in Hong Kong The importance of getting out of your element during a biker...

In the twenty essays that make up his first collection of stories, "Chatter to Flatter Your Platter: Essays that Explore Wisdom and Humor in Everyday Lif"e, author Moj Dehghan educates and entertains his audience by sharing not only the lessons he has learned, but also the humor that he found in his circle of family and friends

Do couples fight because of sex or money? Look for the answer in 'The Joys and Pains of Marriage." Want to find out what a teenager thinks is the best food that his father cooks? Find out in 'Good Looking What's Cooking?" Dehghan tackles these and other...

Dogs are the natural villains in any book by or about mail carriers-and that's certainly true in "Tales of Yore, The Mail Carriers' Revenge," a collection of favorite anecdotes of real-life mail carriers. Here, dogs are humorously trashed, trounced, and vilified in a most satisfactory manner. However, not all dogs are bad. "Tales of Yore" also includes light-hearted stories of inept dogs, misunderstood dogs, some vicious critters that aren't even dogs-and yes, even a few good dogs.

"Tales of Yore" is about people too, as postal people are kind of like dogs. You've got your good ones,...

Is this author overexposing herself?

Close Calls.escaping by the skin of my.""Before we even knew what he hit, Arab men appeared from every nook and cranny. Like flies around a ripe, red watermelon, they swarmed around our car, peering at us from behind black beards and mustaches. Our hearts sank.""

Lodges.the good, the bad, and the ugly.""We had certainly come a long way from the flush toilets.Chobi's toilet amounted to a chair that resembled a lawn chair, with a toilet seat on it-over a 'long-drop loo'.Actually, the chair was over a hole in the ground-and this 'long-drop loo' had a...

Every week for the past twelve years Bouchier has plucked a topic from the chaos of ordinary life and subjected it to his special brand of ironic scrutiny. Nothing is too small or too vast to attract his attention: stuffed bears,...

"This book is pro-humanity. It's not just pro-one segment of the population. I was so deeply moved. I think it can make women who read it just bloom for the first time."
"San Francisco Floral Chronicles"

"This book is a gas."
"Dallas Petroleum Vanguard"

"If I ever meet the author of this book, I'm gonna shoot him "
"Detroit Handguns Monthly"

"I just curled up with this good book by the fire, and realized what the f...had been wrong with my life,...

Drawn from years of hilarious and thoughtful travelogues he wrote as a communications consultant, author Paul Heagen provides intriguing insights into communications in business and life as you journey with him when he learns: The generosity of a toothless fruit vendor in Hong Kong The importance of getting out of your element during a biker...

When work and marriage brought David Bouchier to Long Island in 1986 the endless suburbs seemed mysterious and exotic to him. He was inspired to begin writing essays and newspaper columns about his life there - a personal and public diary of the Resident Alien experience. In 1992 a weekly...