Wanda Sykes reduces people to tears -- tears of laughter. She's done so as a stand-up comic, a sitcom star, and a sports commentator for years now, and in the process she's gained a huge fan base nationwide. Now that she's conquered television, she's applying her genius to her first book, Yeah, I Said ... more »

The year is 1978. Saturday Night Fever is breaking box office records. All over America kids are racing home to watch Dance Fever , Michael Jackson is poised to become the next major pop star, and in Hollis, Queens, fourteen-year-old Darryl McDaniels -- who will one day go by the name D.M.C. -- busts ... more »

Say I do to five surprising stories of women grappling with love and marriage and whether to walk down the aisle or run away. In Elise Juska's Perfect Weather for Driving, Megan and Joel's sunset fender-bender makes for a great drunken story at his friend's wedding, but the reality is hardly romantic ... more »

How fat do you have to be to become bulletproof? Why do people have eyebrows? Why do pineapples have spines? How much does a head weigh? What affects the color of earwax? How quickly could I turn into a fossil? Have you ever thought up a question so completely off-the-wall, so seemingly ridiculous, that ... more »

A hilarious spoof of self-help books; instead of telling you what to do to enrich your life, this book tells you 563 stupid things NOT to do. Laugh-out-loud funny, this book is a must for anyone who has ever embraced their inner-child or been part of a twelve-step program. The anti-Oprah. more »

This lightweight yet un-fluffy collection of humorous letters is divided into sections from politicians, writers and show business figures, organized chronologically. Highlights include Fred Allen's 1932 encounter with a barrel of bricks, the bon mots of Robert Benchley about water in the streets of ... more »

A frequent contributor to the New York Times magazine, Outside, Salon, and GQ, and a regular on Public Radio International's This American Life, David Rakoff's debut collection of essays is simultaneously laugh-out-loud funny and take-your-breath-away poignant. David Rakoff is a fish out of water. Whether ... more »

The Bush era has been a special time -- for the deficit (back, and larger than ever), for the countries formerly known as our allies, and for the English language. Here it all is, straight from the horse's, er, mouth. With new Bushisms coming fast and furious in this election season, ace Bushism editor ... more »

In twentieth-century African American fiction, music has been elevated to the level of religion primarily because of its Orphic, magical power to unsettle oppressive realities, to liberate the soul and to create, at least temporarily, a medium of freedom. This collection explores literary invocations ... more »

Joshua Davis dreams like most guys. He wants a fun career, exciting adventures, a happy wife who's proud of him, and really big muscles that strangers can't help but admire. Too bad he's a 129-pound data entry clerk whose wife, Tara, has only three simple requests for their life together: direct sunlight ... more »

In her acclaimed books I Do. I Did. Now What?! and What Wendell Wants , Jenny Lee hilariously chronicled the milestones of getting married and getting a dog. Now she takes on the most terrifying milestone of all: getting older. Tackling everything from the peer pressure to have children to resisting ... more »

It's Halloween, and kickass high school monster mayhem is once again unleashed at Grant-Williams High. In the second adventure--and a Fictionwise original--Jimmy Ross is now a sophomore and he is about to get a taste of the scariest and wildest Halloween of his life. Emily has graduated and gone to college ... more »