Humor

Great Political Wit

Famous for his delectably dry humor, Senator Bob Dole brings us the ultimate bipartisan book: some of his favorite witticisms, hilarious remarks, and wry observations of the great political figures of this century.

The Jerusalem Syndrome

The Gospel according to Maron: a spiritual memoir of your average hyperintelligent, ultraneurotic, superhip Jewish standup comedian and seeker.

Fraud

A frequent contributor to the New York Times magazine, Outside, Salon, and GQ, and a regular on Public Radio International's "This American Life, "David Rakoff's debut collection of essays is simultaneously laugh-out-loud funny and take-your-breath-away poignant.

The Catholic Girl's Guide to Sex

The essential handbook for managing your morals the modern wayYou don?t have to be Catholic to feel a twinge of concern when your love life gets too lively?but it helps. Melinda Anderson and Kathleen Murray to the rescue!

Fierce Pajamas

When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he described it as a ?comic weekly.? And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the founder?s description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists of the modern era?

Loser Goes First

It all begins on Christmas morning, 1978. Dan Kennedy is ten years old and wants a black Gibson Les Paul guitar, the kind Peter Frampton plays. It will be his passport to the coolest (only) band in the neighborhood?Jokerz. He doesn?t get it.

The Suburban You

You are about to discover that living in the suburbs is a whole lot funnier than you ever thought possible. For this country?s 145, 892, 494 (give or take) suburbanites, Mark Falanga is an utterly deadpan (and thoroughly entertaining) spokesman.

I Rant, Therefore I Am

Once again there's good news for those of us who rage at the evening news, shake our heads at Washington's business-as-usual, or watch as politicians carom helplessly between political crises and sex scandals: Dennis Miller is back with his third installment of hilarious observat

2007-Eleven

From the pages of The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Slate stagger Frank Cammuso and Hart Seely, restoring a cheerful sanity to our deranged lives and times.Every now and then, funny writing somehow manages to retain full possession of literary quality.

Out There

Join investigative humorist Henry Alford as he navigates the wild world of internet personalities ?