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How did I get here? / by McCall, Bruce,author.;
The definitive memoir of the celebrated New Yorker cartoonist and former Saturday Night Live writer, tracing his creative and personal journey from his humble Canadian child- and early-adulthood to his "Mad Men" advertising days and New York City success. From austere post-WWII Ontario (Simcoe County) to Mad Men-era New York City to the hallowed halls of Saturday Night Live and The New Yorker, Bruce McCall has seen it all. With wit, candor, and showcasing cover illustrations from Bruce's storied career, his lifetime and career memoir will charm his many fans and anyone who knows and loves the places and eras he describes so well.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; McCall, Bruce.; Cartoonists; Cartoonists; Humorists, American; Humorists, Canadian;
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Mark Twain / by Chernow, Ron,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, under Halley's Comet, the rambunctious Twain was an early teller of tall tales. He left his home in Missouri at an early age, piloted steamboats on the Mississippi, and arrived in the Nevada Territory during the silver-mining boom. Before long, he had accepted a job at the local newspaper, where he barged into vigorous discourse and debate, hoaxes and hijinks. After moving to San Francisco, he published stories that attracted national attention for their brashness and humor, writing under a pen name soon to be immortalized. Chernow draws a richly nuanced portrait of the man who shamelessly sought fame and fortune and crafted his celebrity persona with meticulous care. Twain eventually settled with his wife and three daughters in Hartford, where he wrote some of his most well-known works, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, earning him further acclaim. He threw himself into American politics, emerging as the nation's most notable pundit. While his talents as a writer and speaker flourished, his madcap business ventures eventually forced him into bankruptcy; to economize, Twain and his family spent nine eventful years in exile in Europe. He suffered the death of his wife and two daughters, and the last stage of his life was marked by heartache, political crusades, and eccentric behavior that sometimes obscured darker forces at play. Drawing on Twain's bountiful archives, including his fifty notebooks, thousands of letters, and hundreds of unpublished manuscripts, Chernow masterfully captures a man whose career reflected the country's westward expansion, industrialization, and foreign wars. No other white author of his generation grappled so fully with the legacy of slavery after the Civil War or showed such keen interest in African American culture. Today, more than one hundred years after his death, Twain's writing continues to be read, debated, and quoted"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.; Authors, American; Humorists, American;
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Calypso / by Sedaris, David,author.;
Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.
Subjects: Essays.; Sedaris, David; Aging; Mortality; American wit and humor.; Humorists, American; Humorists, American;
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Happy-go-lucky / by Sedaris, David,author.;
"With his trademark wit and ever-curious eye, Sedaris draws brilliance and poignancy from the everyday. Full of generosity, revelation, and the kind of belly laughter only family can spark, Happy-Go-Lucky invites readers back into the singular world of a preeminent chronicler of American eccentricity and contradiction"--
Subjects: Essays.; Sedaris, David; American wit and humor.; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; Humorists, American; Humorists, American;
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Happy-go-lucky [text (large print)] / by Sedaris, David,author.;
"With his trademark wit and ever-curious eye, Sedaris draws brilliance and poignancy from the everyday. Full of generosity, revelation, and the kind of belly laughter only family can spark, Happy-Go-Lucky invites readers back into the singular world of a preeminent chronicler of American eccentricity and contradiction"--
Subjects: Essays.; Large type books.; Sedaris, David; American wit and humor.; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; Humorists, American; Humorists, American;
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Happy-go-lucky [sound recording] / by Sedaris, David,author,narrator.; Hachette Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by the author."With his trademark wit and ever-curious eye, Sedaris draws brilliance and poignancy from the everyday. Full of generosity, revelation, and the kind of belly laughter only family can spark, Happy-Go-Lucky invites readers back into the singular world of a preeminent chronicler of American eccentricity and contradiction"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Essays.; Sedaris, David; American wit and humor.; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; Humorists, American; Humorists, American;
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Class clown : the memoirs of a professional wiseass : how I went 77 years without growing up / by Barry, Dave,author.;
A humorous memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Dave Barry, reflecting on his long career of comedic commentary and life experiences without losing his sense of humour.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Barry, Dave; American wit and humor; Humorists, American; Journalists;
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Furiously happy : a funny book about horrible things / by Lawson, Jenny,1979-;
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Subjects: Lawson, Jenny, 1979-; Journalists; Humorists, American; Mental illness;
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The new one : painfully true stories from a reluctant dad / by Birbiglia, Mike,author.; Stein, J. Hope(Jen Hope),author.;
"Mike Birbiglia never wanted to be a father. In fact, there are seven very specific reasons he never wanted a kid, including his aversion to sticky surfaces and his less-than-ideal genes: he's had Lyme Disease, a bladder tumor, diabetes, and dangerous sleepwalking, to name a few. Not to mention the fact that Mike generally doesn't think people (including himself) are really all that great. Then Mike's wife, poet Jen Hope Stein, becomes infected with the contagion 'baby fever' and convinces him she'll do all of the parenting and that their lives don't have to change because of future baby Oona. Yes, he bought that line. In a hilarious memoir about the trials and tribulations of parenting, Mike Birbiglia shares anecdotes all parents can relate to, including laugh-out-loud observations on the lead up to being a parent, the birth of the baby, and the very messy aftermath of bringing this new one home ... for a forever stay! Borne out of and based on his Broadway show The New One, and entirely expanded upon with at least 50% new material for this book, new dad Birbiglia will have you crying from laughter and smiling with joy as he falls in love with baby Oona, despite how smelly she is! Mike's candid thoughts on his reluctance about becoming a dad, what he describes as being the 'pudgy milkless vice president of his family,' laced with Stein's poetry combine to form a heartfelt and hilarious book"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Humor.; Poetry.; Birbiglia, Mike.; Birbiglia, Mike; Humorists, American; Fatherhood; Parent and child; Parenting; Parent and child; Parenting;
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A carnival of snackery : diaries (2003-2020) / by Sedaris, David,author.;
Picking up where his previous volume of diaries, 'Theft by Finding', (9780316154727) left off, David Sedaris chronicles the years 2003-2020.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Diaries.; Sedaris, David; Authors, American; Humorists, American;
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