It took Bonnie McFarlane a lot of time, effort, and tequila to get to where she is today. In this memoir, Bonnie tells it like it is and lays bare all of her smart (and her not-so-smart) decisions along her way to finding her comedic...
HUMOR / Form / Essays
- Author:McFarlane, BonnieSummary:
- Author:Ruffin, AmberSummary:
Amber Ruffin and her sister Lacey Lamar share absurd anecdotes about everyday experiences of racism with humor and heart.
- Author:Klein, JessiSummary:
Both a tomboy and a late bloomer, Jessi Klein grew up feeling like an observer rather than a participant in the rites of modern femininity. This is a funny collection of real-life stories in which Klein explores the milestones of the...
- Author:Conaboy, KellySummary:
Kelly Conaboy presents a funny exploration of the joy found in loving a dog so much it makes you feel like you're going to combust. Follow Peter and his owner to Woofstock and canine dance lessons. From learning about Peter's...
- Author:Morris, ThomasSummary:
"Delightfully horrifying."-Popular Science This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of a bygone era in all its jaw-dropping weirdness. A puzzling series of...
- Author:Sedaris, DavidSummary:
From a spectacular career spanning almost three decades, these stories, selected by Sedaris himself, have become modern classics and are now for the first time collected in one volume.
- Author:Esposito, CameronSummary:
Cameron Esposito wanted to be a priest and ended up a standup comic. In this memoir, she tells the whole, freaking queer as hell story.
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A colleciton of essays from writers and comedians that captures the formative moments in our lives that we are typically too afraid to share. Topics range from trauma to sexuality to love to loss to finally understanding what human...
- Author:McCardell, MikeSummary:
Vancouver news icon and co-host of CTV's "The Last Word," Mike McCardell is the crafter of human-interest stories that counteract the doom and gloom of conventional news programming. With his unerring instinct for teasing...
- Author:Gondelman, JoshSummary:
Emmy-Award winning writer and comedian Josh Gondelman's collection of personal stories of best intentions and mixed results. Josh Gondelman knows a thing or two about trying-and failing. The Emmy Award-winning stand-up comic-dubbed...
- Author:Sedaris, DavidSummary:
From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new book of essays taking his readers on a bizarre and stimulating world tour. Whether railing against the habits of litterers in the English countryside or marveling over a...
- Author:Knox, JackSummary:
In Hard Knox, seasoned columnist and consummate everyman Jack Knox offers up his uniquely hilarious views on Canadian life as seen from the western fringes of the country—in particular from the “Island of Misfit Toys” as he aptly calls...
- Author:Haysom, IanSummary:
A sharp, funny, heartfelt memoir by a career-driven baby boomer who enters semi-retirement and explores the joys, challenges, and never-ending surprises of being a "young" granddad.One summer, shortly after taking a step back...
- Author:Hitchins, ShawnSummary:
Musings from a "one-man flash mob" (Toronto Star) Comedian Shawn Hitchins explores his irreverent nature in this debut collection of essays. Hitchins doesn't shy away from his failures or celebrate his mild successes-he...