I had a great time reading Flunky...a good, ribald academic comedy. Tony Award winner Mark Medoff, author of Children of A Lesser God and The Homage. Money is oil to dignity's water. So muses John Deyme, the eager bumbler of Flunky . Fully ambitious and fully talentless, John is determined to impress ... more »

In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America's first female astronauts. They passed the same battery of tests at the legendary Lovelace Foundation as did the Mercury 7 astronauts, but they were summarily dismissed ... more »

Few comics make the transition from stage to page as smoothly or successfully as George Carlin. Brain Droppings spent a total of 40 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and this new one is certain to tickle even more ribs (and rattle a few more cages) with its characteristically ironic take on ... more »

A bestselling, Harvard-bred humorist plans to knock out a slapdash, quick-buck parody of a wildly successful, head-spinning, clue-laden thriller in a flagrant attempt to cash in on the publishing sensation of the decade, but the tousle-haired satirist's sleazy scheme goes awry when his two heroes -- ... more »

The Lessons of Terror is so earnest, so well informed and so outrageous...that almost any reader will find something to love and something that will make you want to throw the book across the room. It is, in short, pure Carr. Newsweek After the deadly attacks against the United States, many Americans ... more »

Perhaps you too have experienced the nausea brought on by the arrival of an invitation to a high school reunion. Bookstore clerk and culture junker Verity Presti will soon attend her fifteenth reunion with her boyfriend, the unfortunately but aptly named Charlie Brown, who lives with his parents while ... more »

Written in side-splitting and often cringe-inducing detail, Paul Feig takes you in a time machine to a world of bombardment by dodge balls, ill-fated prom dates, hellish school bus rides, and other aspects of public school life that will keep you laughing in recognition and occasionally sighing in relief ... more »

Dave Barry is a Pulitzer prize-winning columnist and the bestselling author  of Dave Barry Turns 50, Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus, Dave Barry in Cyberspace, and the recent novel Big Trouble. He lives in Miami, Florida, of course. From the Paperback edition. more »

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Celebrated playwright and magnetic wit Wendy Wasserstein has been firmly rooted in New York's cultural life since her childhood of Broadway matinees, but her appeal is universal. Shiksa Goddess collects thirty-five of her urbane, inspiring, and deeply empathic essays-all written when she was in her forties ... more »

The essential handbook for managing your morals the modern way You don't have to be Catholic to feel a twinge of concern when your love life gets too lively--but it helps. Melinda Anderson and Kathleen Murray to the rescue! They provide guidance from your first impure thoughts to the day you cash in ... more »

A young woman heads to the city for her dream job as New York editor in this contemporary retelling of the story of Esther. When Emily Hinton, a quirky and quick-witted Southern California girl, lands a job at the world-famous publishing house Morrow & Sons, she decides that she is moving to New ... more »