Kategoria BISAC: Humor >> Form - Essays

What does it take to become a Hugo and Stoker Award-nominated editor and publisher? Follow Jason Sizemore's unconventional professional path as it winds through a tiny, overheated Baptist church deep within the coal fields of Appalachia, Kentucky, past a busted printer and a self-serving boss that triggered an early mid-life crisis and the epiphany that he should open a magazine spreading the gospel of science fiction to the masses, all the way to WorldCon 2012 and his first Hugo Awards ceremony.

In this collection of semi-true and sometimes humorous essays, Jason exposes the...

The comedian, actor, television host, podcast king, and New York Times bestselling author of President Me, Not Taco Bell Material, and In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks now lays down the law on the plight of the modern parent.

Parents, do you often think that if your kids had to grow up the way you did--without iPads, 70-inch flatscreen TVs, American Girl dolls, and wifi in the climate controlled minivan--that they might actually be better off? Do you feel underappreciated or ignored? Do you worry you're raising a bunch of spoiled softies who will never...

The actress, comedian, media darling, and New York Times bestselling author picks up where she left off in Ali in Wonderland, dissecting modern life--and this time, on a mission of self-improvement--in a series of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes.

Moved by a particularly inspirational tweet one day, Ali Wentworth resolves to live by the pithy maxims she discovers in her feeds. What begins as a sort of self-help project quickly turns into something far grander--and increasingly funnier--as the tweets she once viewed with irony become filled with increasing metaphysical...

Winner of the 2016 Thurber Prize

The riotous, tender story of a bookish Mississippi boy and his flawed, Bunyanesque father, told with the comic verve of David Sedaris and the deft satire of Mark Twain or Roy Blount, Jr.

Harrison Scott Key was born in Memphis, but he grew up in Mississippi, among pious, Bible-reading women and men who either shot things or got women pregnant. At the center of his world was his larger-than-life father--a hunter, a fighter, a football coach, -a man better suited to living in a remote frontier wilderness of the nineteenth century...

Life on the river can be exciting for a spectator who watches weekenders enjoying the wilds of Up North. Including in this book are stories of fishing, canoeing, kayaking, tubing, some foolish acts of our own, and what happens when people don't know who's watching.

Corvallis Reflections is, at its heart, a celebration of a community and its people. But Wray's reflective lens looks forward also, and into the deepest realms of human nature. His ever-
present good humor masks a willingness to explore, satirize and when necessary confront, people,
organizations and ideas he considers inimical to the best interests of his beloved Corvallis,
Oregon.

In the finest tradition of American newspaper columnists, no subject is too small or too large to
attract Wray's interest. He is as engaged in a call to clean up a county road...

In the "funny, insightful" (Harper's Bazaar) Tales from the Back Row, Cosmopolitan.com editor Amy Odell takes readers behind the stage of New York's hottest fashion shows to meet the world's most influential models, designers, celebrities, editors, and photographers.

But first, she has to push her way through the crowds...

At twenty-three, Lizzie leaves her native New Zealand to work for VIP billionaires in their remote oasis. Legally forbidden to talk about her employers, she calls their country 'Xamnesia.' The place has its perks, such as hugging Michael Jackson and receiving diamond watches, but with her isolated childhood and anxiety about succeeding, she'll do anything to please others. And with these bosses, that's one bad rabbit hole to fall into.

Will smuggling a million dollars be what snaps her out of her fog? And can...