Well-known humor writer Ian Frazier takes a sobering look at life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, the South Dakota home of the Oglala Sioux. Frazier's abstract admiration for the Sioux world-view is tempered by the realities of reservation life, which include chronic alcoholism, violence, and poverty, and which add up to what Frazier can ...
A travelogue of the Great Plains, from the site of Sitting Blue's cabin on the Grand River in South Dakota, to a rock shop made of fossilized dinosaur bones; from an abandoned house where Bonnie and Clyde terrorized the inhabitants in 1933, to the house of the murders in Capote's "In Cold Blood".
More serious than a "gag" writer and funnier than most essayists, Frazier has a classical originality. This collection, a companion to his previous humor collections "Dating Your Mom" and "Coyote v. Acme," contains 33 pieces gathered from the last 13 years.
Welcome to Ian Frazier's New York, a city more downtown than up, where every block is an event, and where the denizens are larger than life. His bewitching, inimitable voice, makes readers fall in love with America's greatest city all over again.
Riffing on the language of Deuteronomy, Frazier spins a harried father's code of conduct for his young children. Laws and edicts governing the use of sippy cups, the duration of quiet time, the desert of dessert, and a dozen other moments in the life of a young family are accompanied by humorous illustrations.
In this collection of reporting pieces that have appeared in The New Yorker, Ian Frazier's subjects range from Heloise, the household hints columnist, to Jim Deren, the famous fisherman. Remarkably vivid, enjoyable profiles of seemingly obscure subjects.
Twenty-five short pieces from the former "New Yorker" writer, including "LGA-ORD", the parody of Samuel Beckett as airline pilot giving an in-flight speech to passengers.
Each new volume of this acclaimed collection reflects the guest editor's distinctive taste and perspective. This year, Ian Frazier provides an unusually humorous and unpredictable selection, featuring essays by some of our most respected writers, including Susan Sontag, Roy Blount, Jr., and Thomas McGuane.
Some of the portraits in this collection go back to the 1980s, but most are from the very early 21st century, and most of them contain an element of comedy, such as a photograph of a woman in a chiffon sari pumping gas.
When Ian Frazier's first collection of humorous essays, Dating Your Mon, was published in 1986, Time's reviewer Paul Gray called it "hilarious" and warned readers to" read sparingly... By 1996 another collection may appear". And he was rights. Frazier's new collection, Coyote v. Acme, includes twenty-two more side-splitting glimpses into some of ...
A collection of stories and poems for children written by a Russian absurdist playwright and author. Selections include "A Mysterious Case", "The Carpenter Kushakoff", "The Four-Legged Crow", "Optical Illusion", and "Let's Write a Story". The color illustrations were created in the artistic style of post-revolutionary Russia in the 1920s and 1930s ...
In this collection of reporting pieces that have appeared in The New Yorker, Ian Frazier's subjects range from Heloise, the household hints columnist, to Jim Deren, the famous fisherman. Remarkably vivid, enjoyable profiles of seemingly obscure subjects.
"Food for the Soul" is a fascinating collection of writings by homeless participants of New York City's famed Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen Writers Workshop, founded by Ian Frazier, who wrote the introduction. It iscompiled by The Rev. Elizabeth Maxwell, priest at Holy Apostles and Susan Shapiro, who teaches the workshops.
In this collection of satirical pieces and short humorous fiction, Veronica Geng turns up hilarities large and small in government-speak, gender relations, academia, the mass media, love lives, restaurants airplanes, and baseball fans. "Often", Ian Frazier writes in his introduction, "her writing was the purest satire, in the sense that its ...
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