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David Raymond Sedaris ( / sɪˈdɛərɪs /; born December 26, 1956) [1] [2] is an American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor. He was publicly recognized in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay "Santaland Diaries". He published his first collection of essays and short stories, Barrel Fever, in 1994.
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35318437. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments is a 1997 collection of nonfiction writing by David Foster Wallace . In the title essay, originally published in Harper's as "Shipping Out", Wallace describes the excesses of his one-week trip in the Caribbean aboard the cruise ship MV Zenith, which he rechristens the Nadir.
Her 167-page book is full of funny essays on a wide variety of topics — you don't have to be a Yooper to appreciate them. Divided into 18 sub-sections, Besonen's collection covers fishing in ...
Genre. Humor, children's literature. My Weird School is a series of humorous chapter books written by Dan Gutman and illustrated by Jim Paillot, first published in July 2004. [1] Further series include My Weird School Daze (2008-2011), My Weirder School (2011-2014), My Weirdest School (2015-2018), My Weirder-est School (2019-2022), and My Weird ...
Ned Vizzini. Edison Price Vizzini (April 4, 1981 – December 19, 2013) was an American writer. [1] He was the author of four books for young adults, including It's Kind of a Funny Story (2006), which NPR placed at #56 in its list of the "100 Best-Ever Teen Novels" [2] and which is the basis of the film of the same name .
However, in 2007, consensus (sort of) shifted against keeping most BJAODN on Wikipedia (see Wikipedia talk:Silly Things ), and it came to be viewed by many as encouraging vandalism. Things are no longer added to this group of pages on Wikipedia itself (except on rare occasions), but have been moved to another site, and only a few highlights are ...
The book was a parody of a high school yearbook from the early 1960s. The parody was edited by Lampoon regulars P. J. O'Rourke and Douglas Kenney and art-directed by David Kaestle. Much of the writing was by O'Rourke and Kenney. (It was based on an earlier National Lampoon two-page piece, "1956 High School Yearbook," by Kenney and Michael O ...