Kategoria BISAC: Humor >> Form - Essays

Hilariously funny and oddly informative Stella Rheingold's "Ain't it Awful" is the perfect gift for the chronic grumbler, or anyone who wants to get their gripe on

In this laugh out loud tour of all things unsatisfactory you will learn all about why we complain, the different types of complaints, how to complain successfully, and how to deal with other people's moaning. With her humorous take on all that is wrong with world, Stella dives head long into the rich world of possibilities for the committed grumbler.

This fun, light hearted book proves that Comedy truly is the...

After 25 years of playing golf, mostly as a single, Par-Man has accumulated quite a collection of stories about the characters who roam the links. Par-Man has one mission; a round at par or better. If that looks like it won't happen for Par-Man, then he is obligated to help the others in the group achieve golf immortality. Par-Man is not a professional (not even close), nor are the other players in the book. They are Saturday golfers who just love the game. Every shot on every hole in this chronicle is true. Each reader will find a little bit of themselves in these tales. Maybe it will...

Even before she made a name for herself on the silver screen starring in films like Pitch Perfect, Up in the Air, Twilight, and Into the Woods, Anna Kendrick was unusually small, weird, and "10 percent defiant."

At the ripe age of thirteen, she had already resolved to "keep the crazy inside my head where it belonged. Forever. But here's the thing about crazy: It....

A sartorial follow-up to her hilarious memoir in stories, Fat Girl Walking, internet personality Brittany Gibbons once again deep dives into the world of the plus size woman, this time chronicling her love/hate (but mostly hate) relationship with what fashion.

From Pinterest boards and Instagram posts to shop windows and ad campaigns, fashion is everywhere. We shop and dress for practical reasons like job interviews or to make a good impression at the board meeting. We shop and dress for more adventurous reasons--for dates, to woo a lover, to catch someone's eye. Clothes are...

Clinton Kelly is probably best known for teaching women how to make their butts look smaller. But in I Hate Everyone, Except You, he reveals some heretofore-unknown secrets about himself, like that he's a finicky connoisseur of 1980s pornography, a disillusioned critic of New Jersey's premier water parks, and perhaps the world's...

An ode to the everyday, Crumbs by Rose White presents normal life in a new light. She captures the small morsels you might hear in line at the supermarket or between co-workers at the water cooler. Featuring 100 real stories from 100 real people, Crumbs is sure to make you sigh, smile, and wince as it celebrates the often awkward occurrences that happen each and every day.

"Amy Schumer's book will make you love her even more. For a comedian of unbridled (and generally hilarious) causticity, Schumer has written a probing, confessional, unguarded, and, yes, majorly humanizing non-memoir, a book that trades less on sarcasm, and more on emotional resonance." --Vogue

"The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo is an alternatingly meditative, sexually explicit, side-splittingly hilarious, heart-wrenching, disturbing, passionately political, and always staggeringly authentic ride through the highs...

Remember this as you read Life Through These Eyes, Vol II: There is always a story within a story. I am often asked, “Are your characters real?” Oh yes, they are all real—very real to me. I loved a few, disliked many, and spent years trying to forget some. The book covers six decades of my life—stories of love, exceptional friendships, pets raising humans, marriage at its best and worst, really mean people, holiday memories, men being men, and much more.

At age fifty-eight, I discovered I had a message I wanted to share: A message that contained memories from...

Remember this as you read Life Through These Eyes, Vol II: There is always a story within a story. I am often asked, “Are your characters real?” Oh yes, they are all real—very real to me. I loved a few, disliked many, and spent years trying to forget some. The book covers six decades of my life—stories of love, exceptional friendships, pets raising humans, marriage at its best and worst, really mean people, holiday memories, men being men, and much more.

At age fifty-eight, I discovered I had a message I wanted to share: A message that contained memories from...

The author of the New York Times bestseller Everything Is Perfect When You're a Liar returns with a deeper and even funnier new collection of essays about the pleasures and perils of living in Kelly Oxford's head.

Kelly Oxford likes to blow up the internet. Whether it is with the kind of Tweets that lead Rolling Stone to name her one of the Funniest People on Twitter or with pictures of her hilariously adorable family (human and animal) or with something...

What do you know about Idaho other than potatoes or maybe that Ernest Hemingway killed himself here? NAN KILMER BAKER grew up in this sparsely populated northwestern state, a skittish Catholic raised in a town full of eccentric characters who intrigued her enough to write about them years later.

Welcome to NAKED JOY, where the author’s heroine AUNT MILLIE raises peacocks, sews an elaborate wardrobe for her detergent bottles, campaigns for JESUS and ignores her sinister husband.  Tortured by her mother’s hideous shoes and insensitivity, BAKER is traumatized when...

#1 Best Selling Author Georgene Summers is at her pinnacle with this Off The Wall, Politically Incorrect, Sarcastic, Satirical book of edgy humor and truth. These are things that PISS everyone off, not just the Author, every single day. These everyday annoyances that plague us all are addressed in a comedic, sarcastic, edgy and truthful way. Hard hitting and side splitting there are Memos to companies and people; suggestions for improvement that will have you crying with delight as well as Hot Flashes to Sales Associates. No one is spared, from Greedy Corporations to Technology to the...