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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.
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 ...
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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 ...
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 .
I Funny: A Middle School Story, also known as I Funny, is a realistic fiction novel by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein. [1] It was published by Little, Brown and Company in 2012. It was followed by I Even Funnier (2013), I Totally Funniest (2015), I Funny TV (2016), I Funny: School of Laughs (2017) and The Nerdiest, Wimpiest, Dorkiest I ...
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 ...
Franklin punned that compared to his ruminations on flatulence, other scientific investigations were "scarcely worth a FART-HING" "Fart Proudly" (also referred as "A Letter to a Royal Academy about farting" and "To the Royal Academy of Farting") is the popular name of an essay about flatulence written by Benjamin Franklin c. 1781 while he was living abroad as United States Ambassador to France.