Leo Rosten A collection of more than five thousand wisecracks, ad-libs, malapropisms, puns, and one-liners by famous personalities includes such topics as Beauty, Chastity, Nature, and Lust. By the author...

Tom Robbins “This is one of those special novels—a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and sane.”—Thomas PynchonThe whooping crane rustlers are girls. Young girls. Cowgirls, as a matter of...

Tom Sharpe January 1, 1979 by Pan Books

Author: Wendy Holden A comedy of country manors. January 1, 2001 by Headline

Stephen Clarke A year after arriving in France, Englishman Paul West is still struggling with some fundamental What is the best way to scare a gendarme? Why do French job...

John Gross "Comic verse," writes editor John Gross, "is verse that is designed to amuse--and perhaps that is as far as any attempt at a definition ought to go." In...

Carrie Fisher Soap opera writer Dinah Kaufman attempts to force herself back into the life of her ex-husband, playwright Rudy Giler October 1, 1991 by Pocket Books

Jack Trevor Story Horace Spurgeon Fenton, struggling scriptwriter is Jack Trevor Story's alter ego - over-committed financially and emotionally.In this darkly comic novel Story documents his hero collisions with the...

Joshua Ferris A big, brilliant, profoundly observed novel about the mysteries of modern life by National Book Award Finalist Joshua Ferris, one of the most exciting voices of his generationPaul...

David Samuel Levinson Why is tonight different from all other nights? Tonight we kill dad. In 2022, American Jews face an increasingly unsafe and anti-Semitic landscape at home. Against this backdrop, the...

Douglas Coupland A razor-sharp portrait of a morally bankrupt and gleefully wicked modern man, Worst. Person. Ever. is Douglas Coupland's gloriously filthy, side-splittingly funny and unforgettable new novel. Meet Raymond...

John Mortimer A successful and self-contained novelist, Felix Morsom suddenly gets thrust into the underworld of London's homeless, when a strange woman proclaims him the father of her son and...