"For more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional, but is also highly attuned to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is at absurd and moving about our daily existence. And it is almost impossible to read without laughing. Now, for the first time collected in one volume, the author brings us his funniest and most memorable work....

Len Bourland's revised and updated columns about being a mother and incorporating a sense of humor about everyday family life.

Originally released as a series of essays in the Atlantic Monthly, Over the Teacups, like Holmes' Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, is a table talk book that discusses age and how to live a long life; how to be a great conversationalist; the art of reading.--Vendor's description.

"A collection of first-person essays and humor pieces about one woman's attempt to make sense of the baffling, humiliating, and extremely annoying world around her"--

A selection of humorous stories, fables, cartoons, and drawings by early twentieth-century author James Thurber, most taken from previously published collections.

"There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on the street, pedestrians being whacked over the head or gathering to watch as a man considers leaping to his death. There's a dirty joke...

"The great humorist Ian Frazier gathers his dispatches from the frontlines of American culture"--

Description of the book "Shared Glory": This is the story of two great friends who are, at the same time, sworn enemies due to their existing rivalry to win the love of one woman. Gloria. She has always loved them both and now, being old, they decide to live a life of three. One woman and two husbands, all living below the same roof. So starts the fierce fight between Cleto and Lico to be the one and only true love of Gloria, resulting in useless...

I offer here some of the essays that I have written in the course of the past ten years. While I was collecting them and (quite patiently) reading them again, I found that a few of them were in direct reference to the moments at which they were severally composed. It was clear that these must have their dates affixed to them. And for sake of uniformity I have dated all the others, and, doing so, have thought I need not exclude all such topical remarks...

Featuring twelve simple yet profound essays, Jerome K. Jerome's Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow is a humorous and clever collection. Each essay is crafted around a timeless and relatable issue, such as the unfortunately common inability to make decisions. On the Art of Making Up One's Mind observes this to be a common practice. Beginning with the story of a young woman who cannot decide what color of garment to buy, this essay takes notice of the...