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A collection of essays by the nationally syndicated humor columnist includes the Pulitzer Prize-winning piece, "Pearls Before Breakfast," about a social experiment for which unrecognized world-class violinist Joshua Bell performed in a Washington, D.C. subway station for spare change.

Southern-bred columnist Susan Reinhardt offers her unique views of life in this collection of uncensored essays.

The "60 Minutes" commentator brings together his greatest pieces of writing spanning a half-century.

Contains 126 pieces drawn from 3 years of Roony's newspaper essays with observations on everything from politicians to birthdays.

Crosley's easy, charming voice in the face of minor suffering or potential drudgery has been described as a mix between Dorothy Parker and David Sedaris. In these hilarious and insightful essays, she packs up her sensibility and takes readers with her to Paris, to Portugal (where she falls in with a group of Portuguese clowns), and to Alaska (where she discovers wearing bear bells is a matter of self-defense). Then it's back to New York, where new...

From the host of television's comedy-punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23 hours of your day. This book contains all of the opinions that Stephen doesn't have time to shoehorn into his nightly broadcast, his most deeply held knee-jerk beliefs on The American Family, Race, Religion, Sex, Sports, and many more topics, conveniently arranged in chapter form. Stephen addresses why Hollywood is destroying America by inches,...

These are some of the humorous short pieces written by the author primarily for The New Yorker.