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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.
Firoozeh Dumas (Persian: فیروزه دوما) [1] (born June 26, 1965, in Abadan, Iran) is an Iranian-American writer who writes in English. She is the author of the memoirs Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America (2003) and Laughing without an Accent: Adventures of a Global Citizen (2008), and the semi-autobiographical novel It Ain't so Awful, Falafel (2016).
Ford County is a collection of novellas by John Grisham.His first collection of stories, it was published by Doubleday in the United States in 2009. [1]The book contains 7 short stories or novellas: [2] "Blood Drive"; "Fetching Raymond"; "Fish Files"; "Casino"; "Michael's Room"; "Quiet Haven"; and "Funny Boy".
For Aristotle, we laugh at inferior or ugly individuals because we feel joy at feeling superior to them. [16] Aristotle observed that many jokes relied on a combination of incongruity and hostility. He explained that jokes are funny because they catch the listener off guard, introducing a surprising and unexpected twist that amuses them ...
A sample image of the sticker found on the book, which reads "The Stephen T. Colbert Award for the Literary Excellence". I Am America (And So Can You!) is a 2007 satirical book by American comedian Stephen Colbert and the writers of The Colbert Report. It was released on October 9, 2007, with the audiobook edition released several days earlier.
The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations is a 1966 nonfiction book by American writer Robert Ardrey. It characterizes an instinct among humans toward territoriality and the implications of this to property ownership and nation building. [ 1 ]
We’re not so much told this story as allowed to listen in from another room as a door swings open and closed.” [3] Jeanne Brown, in the Los Angeles Times, wrote, "The present story lines are overshadowed by the events of the past, the book’s most contemporary scenes existing primarily as an entrée to older memories.” [6]
That's Not Funny, That's Sick (book) The Captain and the Glory: An Entertainment; The Twelve Days of Christmas (Correspondence) This Mitchell and Webb Book; Three Times Carlin; Too Fat to Fish; Tracey Takes On (book) True Story: A Novel