Humour Books

Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAntisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany offers an intriguing point of departure for future inquiries into the functions of coded antisemitism in mainstream Western culture today. -- Ofer Ashkenazi- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem * Antisemitism Studies *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"During the earliest (and bleakest) days of the COVID pandemic, Philipp Stelzel buoyed the spirits of academics on Twitter and beyond with witty cocktail recipes and the promise of future conviviality. His sly critiques of academic power structures were the briny olive in everyone's martini, that little boost that helped bad times go down easier. Enjoy this book – The Dear Committee Members of drinking — while gleefully ignoring the mounting avalanche in your inbox."—Monica Black, Professor of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville"What The Faculty Lounge offers to our collective fields of inquiry is nothing short of groundbreaking. By laying bare the challenges of a career in higher education, Philipp Stelzel has created a space for everyone from the academy – faculty, staff, students, and administrators – to find comfort in poignant humor. But, what do I know? I'm a sitting college president and I've had three 'Presidential Platitudes' already. I'll be lucky to find the keys to the executive washroom at this point."—James Moore, President, West Virginia Wesleyan College"Philipp Stelzel's top-shelf recipes are the most delicious—and efficient—way to help your faculty lose their faculties. Featuring a wide range of both cocktails and mocktails, this book promises to turn every credit hour into a happy hour."—Lauren Stokes, Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern University"Clever and snarky, The Faculty Lounge serves up a collection of academically inspired cocktails that is sure to delight even the most curmudgeonly intellectual."—Brandon Cook, author of Cheers!: Around the World in 80 Toasts"Philipp Stelzel's The Faculty Lounge is a literal and figurative tonic. Who would have guessed that behind the mild-mannered professor (well, mild mannered with a pointed, deadly wit) lay a bartender and mixologist of such formidable skills? I strongly recommend that after any encounter with a "learning outcomes committee,"reader number 2," or a student asking if they "missed anything important," you take Philipp's book and put it to work for you, preferably repeatedly. You won't be sorry!"—Benjamin Hett - Hunter College and the Graduate Center"It's a fun read, and the "experimential learing" component of the book – you know, trying out the drinks – is a much-deserved recompense for those chairs that partake."—Chronicle of Higher EdTable of ContentsIntroduction1. For the Graduate Student2. For the Faculty Member3. For Teaching & Grading4. For the Conference Attendee5. For Researching & Writing6. For the Administrator7. Toast Your Favorite IntellectualEpilogueA Note on IngredientsToolsRecipes by Liquor & Cordial

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Elizabeth Perego deconstructs the notion that humor is merely a 'weapon of the weak' by focusing on comedy's myriad functions, demonstrating that humor can support and/or challenge those in power, as well as those seeking power. Stated differently, humor can be used to unify or divide communities."—Jennifer Howell, author of The Algerian War in French-Language Comics: Postcolonial Memory, History, and Subjectivity"Humor and Power in Algeria, 1920 to 2021 is the first book in English to examine in a systematic and sustained manner the role of humor in Algerian history and politics. It is genuinely pioneering. It engages with a subject everyone can connect with—what makes us laugh—but this is an aspect of Algerian society that is little understood outside of Algeria and France. Elizabeth Perego humanizes and de-exoticizes a region that has been subject to so many pernicious stereotypes in the 'Western' media."—Martin Evans, author of Algeria: France's Undeclared War"Humor and Power in Algeria lays out a persuasive case to take jokes seriously as a primary source for writing history. Deeply researched, written with a vivid sense of storytelling and keen theoretical nuance, this study analyzes the myriad forms of humor that have been so central to the political vocabularies of Algerians since the early twentieth century. Perego gathers together a multilingual and heterogeneous archive of Algerian jokes, caricatures, cartoons, slogans, bandes dessinées, theatrical productions, and other works. Pinpointing the ways that such forms of expression exist in relation to state authority yet also elude it—fluid, flexible, ambiguous, and vernacular, humor "can be whispered" across just about any boundary!—Perego sheds light on the particular power that humor took on during the ruptures of October 1988 and the 1990s war. In its critical framing, the book helps to break with scholarly practices that still tend to bind Algeria to its former colonizer by articulating a broader vision of cultural references and exchanges. And, in its steady insistence on listening closely to what civilians themselves were thinking and saying during difficult times, this is above all a tribute to the capaciousness, resilience, and often hilarious brilliance of Algerian imaginations."—Jill Jarvis, author of Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony"In this thoughtful book, Elizabeth Perego argues that humour is more than a coping mecanism. Jokes and caricatures are this historian's way into the sequence of violence experienced by Algeria in the 1990s. She offers an intelligent, at times deeply moving, and always innovative history of violence."—Malika Rahal, author of Algérie 1962: Une histoire populaire

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Elizabeth Perego deconstructs the notion that humor is merely a 'weapon of the weak' by focusing on comedy's myriad functions, demonstrating that humor can support and/or challenge those in power, as well as those seeking power. Stated differently, humor can be used to unify or divide communities."—Jennifer Howell, author of The Algerian War in French-Language Comics: Postcolonial Memory, History, and Subjectivity"Humor and Power in Algeria, 1920 to 2021 is the first book in English to examine in a systematic and sustained manner the role of humor in Algerian history and politics. It is genuinely pioneering. It engages with a subject everyone can connect with—what makes us laugh—but this is an aspect of Algerian society that is little understood outside of Algeria and France. Elizabeth Perego humanizes and de-exoticizes a region that has been subject to so many pernicious stereotypes in the 'Western' media."—Martin Evans, author of Algeria: France's Undeclared War"Humor and Power in Algeria lays out a persuasive case to take jokes seriously as a primary source for writing history. Deeply researched, written with a vivid sense of storytelling and keen theoretical nuance, this study analyzes the myriad forms of humor that have been so central to the political vocabularies of Algerians since the early twentieth century. Perego gathers together a multilingual and heterogeneous archive of Algerian jokes, caricatures, cartoons, slogans, bandes dessinées, theatrical productions, and other works. Pinpointing the ways that such forms of expression exist in relation to state authority yet also elude it—fluid, flexible, ambiguous, and vernacular, humor "can be whispered" across just about any boundary!—Perego sheds light on the particular power that humor took on during the ruptures of October 1988 and the 1990s war. In its critical framing, the book helps to break with scholarly practices that still tend to bind Algeria to its former colonizer by articulating a broader vision of cultural references and exchanges. And, in its steady insistence on listening closely to what civilians themselves were thinking and saying during difficult times, this is above all a tribute to the capaciousness, resilience, and often hilarious brilliance of Algerian imaginations."—Jill Jarvis, author of Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony"In this thoughtful book, Elizabeth Perego argues that humour is more than a coping mecanism. Jokes and caricatures are this historian's way into the sequence of violence experienced by Algeria in the 1990s. She offers an intelligent, at times deeply moving, and always innovative history of violence."—Malika Rahal, author of Algérie 1962: Une histoire populaire

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Book SynopsisCombines the author's love of America's waterways with practical and historic information gathered from his three decades as a professional riverlorian for the Delta Queen Steamboat Company in New Orleans. A book for all who love Mark Twain, these river adventures will entertain the landlubber and engage the boating enthusiast.Trade ReviewRiver historians, folklorists, and buffs will enjoy and learn from Rivers Revealed: Rediscovering America's Waterways. It can sit on the shelf, ready for reading in long or short installments.Sept. 2008 -- Michael Allen * Indiana Magazine of History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Boy in a Johnboat2. Wabash 5003. Wabash Queen4. Reading the River5. River Guide Books6. Gilligan Goose7. Rescue from a Dock8. Great Duck Race9. Anatomy of a River10. Language of the Rivers11. Nine Days on a Towboat12. Navigable River Know-How13. Bizarre River Experiences14. Evolution of Riverboats15. Restless River16. Steamboat Passengers17. Ghost of Mary Greene18. River Royalty19. Top Ten River Towns20. Canoeing Misadventures21. Grand Excursion 200422. PotpourriBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA funny, informative book that gives the reader an insight into how comedy works and reveals why it's so easy to get wrong (especially in the realm of religion)Trade ReviewAn elegant treatise on how [the church] could lighten up its image. * The Times *Having worked for many years at the coalface of comedy, sorting the dross from the combustible, James Cary is uniquely qualified to write this book. -- Milton Jones, comedian and panellist on BBC2’s Mock the WeekMarvellous potential . . . for opening up conversations and avenues of thoughtful debate * Church Times *[On Death by Civilization]: A wonderful cascade of sage snippets . . . fit to grace bedside tables and smallest rooms in the greatest houses -- Alan Wilson * Church Times *A truly brilliant debut book -- Iain Dale, LBC Drivetime presenter

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together 139 of Ace Reid's popular "Cowpokes" cartoons, reproduced in large format to show the artistry and attention to detail that characterized Reid's work.Table of Contents Foreword by Pat Oliphant Introduction: Ace Reid by Elmer Kelton Work Economics Bankers Weather Ma Outsiders Friends & Neighbors

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Book Synopsis“A witty book about wit that steers an elegant path between waggishness and wisdom.” — Stephen FryTrade Review"Wit's End is delicious." -- Stephen Fry"Playful, fiercely intelligent, silly, funny and immensely informative - [Wit's End] makes for a breathless read that leaves you feeling enormously enriched. The reinvention from chapter to chapter is a masterstroke and keeps the subject matter joyously buoyant." -- Reece Shearsmith, Actor and Writer"James Geary has produced a rich cornucopia of wit and its origins in the wittiest literary way possible. A delight." -- Julia Hobsbawm"... playful, occasionally chaotic road trip through comedy's links to innovation and creativity." -- Discover"Geary presents a history of wit with all the intellectual force and facility that the more learned reader might expect..." -- Times Literary Supplement"... there’s a fascinating exploration of visual wit in the form of an art-history lecture. With humour and verve and by the variety of his style, Geary shows wit to be multifaceted, subtle, ambiguous and akin to wisdom." -- The Irish Times"Wit’s End juggles scholarship, humorous anecdote and critical insight with a diabolical, almost sinister dexterity. No shrinking violet, Geary fully intends to strut his stuff, to glitter and beguile, and he does so with remarkable ingenuity and chutzpah." -- The Washington Post"Geary is a keen storyteller, promiscuous with quotes and figures. One could do worse at a cocktail party than simply opening his book at random and reading aloud." -- The New Yorker"... convey[s] the power of wit to refresh the mind..." -- The Wall Street Journal

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Book SynopsisHilarious, unbelievable-but-true stories from the American courts.

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Book SynopsisA celebrated scholar’s rich account of Jewish humour: its nature, its development and its vital role throughout Jewish history.Trade Review"Dauber recognises the multiplicity of Jewish humour and wisely resists any single characterisation of it... [He] deftly surveys the whole recorded history of Jewish humour." -- The Economist"In a work of substantial, scholarly research that nevertheless has room for some excellent jokes, Dauber provides much insight into how Jewish people have regarded themselves and each other down the centuries, and how Jewish comedians, having come to define American comedy, are still at the cutting edge." -- The Herald"This rich survey takes in everything from the Book of Esther, through medieval satirical rabbinic poetry to the present-day satire of The Daily Show and supreme sitcom of embarrassment, Curb Your Enthusiasm." -- i newspaper

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Book SynopsisA wry cartoonist’s bloody romp through Roman history.

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Book SynopsisThese impossibly cheerful essays on the routine horrors of the present era explain everything from the resurgence of measles to the fiasco of the US presidency.Trade Review"[Petri is] a fresh and prolific voice, someone who [is] able to make the painful reality of our current sociopolitical dumpster fire not just very, very funny, but stingingly poignant." -- Julie Klam - The Washington Post"We all have that one friend who has the rare ability to make us laugh... even under the direst of circumstances. A friend whose dry wit, touching on everything from electoral politics to women’s equality, is more than just banter: It also punctuates intellectual points and helps frame opinions. That’s what it feels like to read Alexandra Petri's new book. " -- Tiffany D. Cross - The New York Times Book Review

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Book SynopsisBuffett has generously endowed us all with a sensible and intelligent roadmap for investing. -- Robert G Hagstrom Warren Buffett -- The Oracle of Everything. He has been right about the stock market, rotten accounting, CEO greed, and corporate governance. The rest of us are just catching on.Trade Review"Über den legendären amerikanischen Investor Warren Buffet wurden breeits zahlreiche Bücher geschrieben - nun erscheint seine Biograhie erstmals als Comic. Die erstaunliche Karriere des ehemaligen Zeitungsträgers, der zum erfolgreichsten Einzelinvestor aller zeiten wurde, mutet als Fabel an. Das Buch des Japaners ayano Morio verleiht Buffett zusätzlich eine Superheld-Aura: Er trifft immer die richtigen Entscheidungen und löst jeeds Problem sofort - wie ein richtiger Superman des Finanzgewerbes. Fazit: unkritisch, aber amüsant." Der Handel, Februar 2005 "... Die englischen Texte sind leicht zu lesen, die Illustrationen sind witzig. Auch der Lernwert des Comics ist nicht zu unterschätzen ..." FAZ, 6. März 2005Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION VII CHAPTER 1 Getting Started 1 CHAPTER 2 Meeting Benjamin Graham 18 CHAPTER 3 Discovering Intangible Value: The Amex Affair 41 CHAPTER 4 The Warren and Charlie Show 49 CHAPTER 5 Buffett Dissolves the Partnerships 68 CHAPTER 6 See's Candies 72 CHAPTER 7 A Platonic Affair 80 CHAPTER 8 The Return to GEICO 86 CHAPTER 9 Buffett Saves Salomon Brothers 102 CHAPTER 10 Back Home 148 CHRONOLOGY 157 BIBLIOGRAPHY 159

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Book SynopsisThe world's greatest business consultant takes the business book down to a whole new level Not to take anything away from E.F. Hutton, but when Stephen Michael Peter Thomas(r) talks, people really listen. (Or at least they turn their heads in his general direction). And what they hear astounds them. The ideas are so simple.Table of ContentsPartial table of contents: WELCOME! How I Began This Life of Learning. LEARNING I: LEADERSHIP IS HARD. A Conversation with The Great One. Teamwork Exercises for Leaders. LEARNING II: COMMUNICATION IS IMPORTANT. The Illustrated Guide to Global Hand Gestures and Facial Expressions. Public Speaking in Our Non-Linear Age. LEARNING III: CHANGE IS DIFFERENT. Forgetting: Leading Indicators. Bringing Change Back Home: Meet the Glinster Family! LEARNING IV: PEOPLE ARE HUMAN. The Hidden Cost of Not Starting on Time. The Touch Template. Gender-Neutral Clothing Guidelines. LEARNING V: THE FUTURE IS TOMORROW. Faith-Based Finance. A Note of Caution. TOOLS FOR FURTHER LEARNING. Thomas Learning Tools & Implementation Products. Index. Credits.

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Book SynopsisArguing that the comic is a quality of literary works of art in other forms as well as comedy, George McFadden finds its essence in the maintenance of some literary feature--a situation, a character--as itself despite threats to alter it. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to agaiTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*1. The Comic as a Literary Quality, pg. 10*2. Description of the Comic as a General Feature in Literature, pg. 22*3. Comic Ethos: The Classical View, pg. 49*4. The Romantic Theory of the Comic, pg. 80*5. The Modern Comic Ethos: Bergson's Laughter, pg. 111*6. Modern Comic Ethos Continued: Freud, pg. 131*7. Twentieth-Century Theorists: Mauron, Cornford, Frye, pg. 152*8. Nietzschean Values in Comic Writing, pg. 174*9. After Barthes: Death of the Comic?, pg. 204*10. Conclusions and Continuing Issues, pg. 242*Selected Bibliography, pg. 255*Index of Names and Titles, pg. 263*Subject Index, pg. 266

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Book SynopsisPublished just in time for Passover 5779, this Haggadah from the Jewdas collective is a satirical, political and downright hilarious take on a Jewish tradition. With a multitude of dangerous ideas such as workers’ rights, liberation of the oppressed and the dismantling of nation-states, this Haggadah is for every left-wing Jewish household.Trade Review`I learnt a lot ... a lovely time' -- Jeremy Corbyn, on the 2018 Jewdas seder `They raised a beetroot in the air and shouted f*** capitalism!' -- Daily Mail, on the 2018 Jewdas seder

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Book SynopsisA family friendly collection of clean and hysterical jokes that will have everyone laughing and rolling their eyes at dad. (So what else is new?)

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Book SynopsisA new critical edition of the first Protestant catechism to be published in English. The editors' introduction establishes the historical, religious, social and cultural contexts out of which the work was born.

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Book SynopsisFrom his birth in Brownfield, Texas, to a family so poor “they could only afford a tumbleweed as a pet”, Bob Hinkle went on to gain acclaim in Hollywood. Through it all, he remained the salty, down-to-earth former rodeo cowboy from West Texas. More than forty photographs complement this rousing, never-dull memoir.

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Book SynopsisFor more than 30 years, investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author Craig Pittman has chronicled the wildest stories Florida has to offer. Featuring a selection of columns that have appeared throughout Pittman's career, this book highlights just how strange and wonderful Florida can be.

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Book SynopsisIn this lively and fascinating analysis of humourists and their work, Will Kaufman breaks new ground with his irony fatigue theory. The Comedian as Confidence Man examines the humorist's internal conflict between the social critic who demands to be taken seriously and the comedian who never can be: the irony fatigue condition.

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Book SynopsisPresents some of the most outstanding and hilarious examples of Jewish dialect humour drawn from the five books Milt Gross (1895-1953) published between 1926 and 1928 - "Nize Baby", "De Night in de Front from Chreesmas", "Hiawatta", "Dunt Esk", and "Famous Fimmales".Trade ReviewIs Diss a System? brings back Milt Gross with a bang. Artist, tongue-twisting language humorist, Gross was a great figure of American popular culture in the first half of the twentieth century, sadly forgotten . . . until now! Kelman has given us all a gift by selecting, annotating and celebrating a multiculturalism that rings with humor, humanism and a spirit we all need as much as ever. Hurrah! -- Paul Buhle,editor of Jews and American ComicsMilt Gross is a lost wonder of the American literary funhouse. A blessing on the head of Ari Y. Kelman for bringing him, roaring, back to mad and vivid life. -- Michael Chabon,author of The Yiddish Policemen’s Union: A NovelNearly thirty years before my birth, Milt Gross had already turned the kind of English that I heard every day into great and significant art, delighting kids like me as much as he offended the Pecksniffian alte kakers who sought to purge American Jewish culture of every trace of real Yiddish and real Yiddish life. Gross was the bomb under Molly Goldbergs tukhes. Is Diss a System?, a book that needs to be spoken as much as it needs to be read, makes some of his best work available to an audience that might never have suspected what its been missing. -- Michael Wex,author of Born to Kvetch and Just Say NuIt is Grosss good fortune, and ours, that a most recent generation of Americans has reclaimed him as its own or, at the very least, brought his talents to the fore once more. Is Diss a System? A Milt Gross Comic Reader is a case in point, a showcase of his many gifts. . . . In his championing of Milt Gross, Kelman assumes his rightful place as a cultural archaeologist of American Jewrys vernacular culture. He belongs, in fact, to a new generation of American Jewish intellectuals who are determined to recoverand to celebratewhat their forbears had consigned to the attic or dismissed as a curiosity. * The New Republic *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionGeeve A. Lesten and Ari Y. KelmanNize Baby (1926) (Excerpts)Dunt Esk! (1927) De Night in de Front from Chreesmas (1927)Hiawatta (1926)Famous Fimmales (1928)Assorted Milt Gross Images BibliographyAbout the Editor

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Book SynopsisReveals how the comic book hero has evolved to maintain relevance to America’s fluctuating ideas of masculinity, patriotism, and violence. Stevens outlines the history of Captain America’s adventures and places the unfolding storyline in dialogue with the comic book industry as well as America’s varying political culture.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the fascinating discourse on Jewish wit in the twentieth century when the Jewish joke became the subject of serious humanistic inquiry and inserted itself into the cultural and political debates among Germans and Jews against the ideologically-charged backdrop of anti-Semitism, the Jewish question, and the Holocaust.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Joke and Its Questions | 1 1 Secondary Moves: Arthur Trebitsch and the Jewish Joke | 24 2 Of Caricatures, Jokes, and Anti- Semitism: The Case of Eduard Fuchs | 60 3 Of Watchmen and Comedians: Jewish Jokes and Free Speech in Weimar Germany | 95 4 “Far from where?”: Erich Kahler and the Jewish Joke of Exile | 119 5 Of Jokes and Propaganda: The Mobilization of the Jewish Joke in the Nazi Era | 153 6 Jewish Joke Reparations and Mourning in Post- Holocaust Germany | 182 Conclusion: Final Thoughts and Last Laughs | 219 Afterword: The Jewish Joke in Trump’s America | 224 Acknowledgments | 231 Notes | 235 Index | 299

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the fascinating discourse on Jewish wit in the twentieth century when the Jewish joke became the subject of serious humanistic inquiry and inserted itself into the cultural and political debates among Germans and Jews against the ideologically-charged backdrop of anti-Semitism, the Jewish question, and the Holocaust.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Joke and Its Questions | 1 1 Secondary Moves: Arthur Trebitsch and the Jewish Joke | 24 2 Of Caricatures, Jokes, and Anti- Semitism: The Case of Eduard Fuchs | 60 3 Of Watchmen and Comedians: Jewish Jokes and Free Speech in Weimar Germany | 95 4 “Far from where?”: Erich Kahler and the Jewish Joke of Exile | 119 5 Of Jokes and Propaganda: The Mobilization of the Jewish Joke in the Nazi Era | 153 6 Jewish Joke Reparations and Mourning in Post- Holocaust Germany | 182 Conclusion: Final Thoughts and Last Laughs | 219 Afterword: The Jewish Joke in Trump’s America | 224 Acknowledgments | 231 Notes | 235 Index | 299

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Book SynopsisAndy's first hilarious and hectic year in the world of comedyTrade Review"A great read and highly recommended!" -- Inspire Magazine"Totally unputdownable and our book of the year." -- Sorted Magazine"Meticulously accurate, entertaining, surprisingly moving. Kind projects an accessible, warm, upbeat demeanour that makes for an easily enjoyable read." Chortle.co.uk (Chortle is the major comedy website in the UK) -- Chortle.co.uk

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Book SynopsisTom has a burning desire to share the Good News with his neighbours. But as an evangelist he suffers from Foot in Mouth disease ...Trade Review"I laughed, I cringed and I cried - a fantastic book from a wonderful author." * Trans World Radio *

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Book SynopsisThis unforgettable book will make you laugh as it unveils the crazy world of Nonscience, the dodgy descendant of science. It will make your toes curl as it shows how the Experts are taking over every aspect of our lives. Nobody understands the rules for COVID-19 because Experts have confused everyone. And there is false news everywhere. No, the Amazon is not the lungs of the world, it doesn''t produce our oxygen. Paper bags in supermarkets are worse than plastic; producing paper causes far more pollution. Are you giving up your fried breakfast for a healthy quiche? Don''t-the quiche is more likely to harm you. Japan is introducing clean cars, powered by hydrogen, but this remarkable book reveals that the powerplant producing the fuel is the filthiest in the world. Why is every major TV station promoting a bake-off show? Those recipes-with sugar, cream, fat, and carbohydrate-cause more disease than anything else we eat. You send kids to university to train their brains, but they go beca

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Book SynopsisThese impossibly cheerful essays on the routine horrors of the present era explain everything from the resurgence of measles to the fiasco of the US presidency.

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Book SynopsisFood & Philosophy offers a collection of essays which explore a range of philosophical topics related to food; it joins Wine & Philosophy and Beer & Philosophy in in the Epicurean Trilogy. Essays are organized thematically and written by philosophers, food writers, and professional chefs. Provides a critical reflection on what and how we eat can contribute to a robust enjoyment of gastronomic pleasures A thoughtful, yet playful collection which emphasizes the importance of food as a proper object of philosophical reflection in its own right Trade Review“It turns out that not only have reputable psychologists at well-respected institutions done experimental studies on this effect, but it also serves as a kind of foul point for various philosophical questions. The works set out to address the intersection between philosophy and areas of everyday general concern: food, wine, and beer. In addition to straightforward philosophical discussions, the volumes include historical discussions, legal questions, some personal reflections.” (Gastronomica, Fall 2008) “A truly well rounded view…and a critical reflection on what and how we eat can contribute to a robust enjoyment of gastronomic pleasures.” (Gourmet Retailer)Table of ContentsForeword viiiOdessa Piper Acknowledgments x Setting the Table: An Introduction to Food & Philosophy 1Fritz Allhoff and Dave Monroe Appetizers: Food in Culture & Society 11 1 Epicurus, the Foodies’ Philosopher 13Michael Symons 2 Carving Values with a Spoon 31Lydia Zepeda 3 Should I Eat Meat? Vegetarianism and Dietary Choice 45Jen Wrye 4 Sublime Hunger: A Consideration of Eating Disorders Beyond Beauty 58Sheila Lintott First Course: Taste & Food Criticism 71 5 Taste, Gastronomic Expertise, and Objectivity 73Michael Shaffer 6 Who Needs a Critic? The Standard of Taste and the Power of Branding 88Jeremy Iggers 7 Hungry Engrams: Food and Non-Representational Memory 102Fabio Parasecoli Second Course: Edible Art & Aesthetics 115 8 Can a Soup Be Beautiful? The Rise of Gastronomy and the Aesthetics of Food 117Kevin W. Sweeney 9 Can Food Be Art? The Problem of Consumption 133Dave Monroe 10 Delightful, Delicious, Disgusting 145Carolyn Korsmeyer 11 Food Fetishes and Sin-Aesthetics: Professor Dewey, Please Save Me From Myself 162Glenn Kuehn Dessert: Eating & Ethics 175 12 Eating Well: Thinking Ethically About Food 177Roger J. H. King 13 Picky Eating is a Moral Failing 192Matthew Brown 14 Shall We Dine? Confronting the Strange and Horrifying Story of GMOs in Our Food 208Paul B. Thompson 15 Taking Stock: An Overview of Arguments For and Against Hunting 221Linda Jerofke Petits Fours: Compliments of the Chef 237 16 Food and Sensuality: A Perfect Pairing 239Jennifer L. Iannolo 17 Duty to Cook: Exploring the Intents and Ethics of Home and Restaurant Cuisine 250Christian J. Krautkramer 18 Diplomacy of the Dish: Cultural Understanding Through Taste 264Mark Tafoya 19 Balancing Tastes: Inspiration, Taste, and Aesthetics in the Kitchen 276Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot Afterword 287 20 Thus Ate Zarathustra 289Woody Allen Notes on Contributors 293 Index 299

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Book SynopsisCOMEDY INCARNATE COMEDY INCARNATEBuster Keaton, Physical Humor and Bodily Coping Buster Keaton was an engineer of the comic, a craftsman of gags, a mechanic of humor. While Carroll does not aspire to be as funny as Keaton, he can match (and follow) him in intricate and brilliant analysis, providing a logic of illogic. A book that will change how we think about slapstick and film style.Tom Gunning, University of Chicago Comedy Incarnate is a brilliant, inventive and lucid examination of Buster Keaton's The General. Through close textual analysis, Carroll opens up a wide expanse of historical and theoretical territory positioning The General in relation to the writings of Merleau-Ponty, Bergson, and Poulet, as well as to the films of Chaplin, Lloyd, and Langdon.Lucy Fischer, University of Pittsburgh Building on Keaton's directorial practice as a sort of civil engineer who engaged a mechanical universe, Carroll Trade Review“Buster Keaton was an engineer of the comic, a craftsman of gags, a mechanic of humor. While Carroll does not aspire to be as funny as Keaton, he can match (and follow) him in intricate and brilliant analysis, providing a logic of illogic. A book that will change how slapstick and film style are written about.” Tom Gunning, University of Chicago “Comedy Incarnate is a brilliant, inventive and lucid examination of Buster Keaton’s The General. Through close textual analysis, Carroll opens up a wide expanse of historical and theoretical territory – positioning The General in relation to the writings of Merleau-Ponty, Bergson, and Poulet, as well as to the films of Chaplin, Lloyd, and Langdon. Lucy Fischer, University of Pittsburgh "Building on Keaton's directorial practice as a sort of civil engineer who engaged a mechanical universe, Carroll...investigates how Keaton's emphasis on gags and their intelligibility characterize the film in specific ways. In so doing he opens up an understanding of how Keaton's comedy of body intelligence works, especially in contrast to contemporaries like Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd, and he shows how intelligence--the artist's and the viewer's--informs laughter." CHOICETable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction: The Phenomenological Background. 1. Themes in The General. 2. Style in The General. 3. Keaton, Chaplin, Lloyd, and Langdon. Summary. Appendix: Narration in Keaton's The General. Index

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Book SynopsisThe first collection of acclaimed illustrator Jack Unruh's work, this book gathers the best of the illustrations he created for The Texanist, Texas Monthly's back-page column, along with the serious and not-so-serious questions that inspired them.Trade Review"Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction What is the proper answer when asked, “Where are you from?” I have a co-worker who dips Copenhagen and spits into a Styrofoam cup in the office. Is this appropriate? If, when you visit a friend’s house, he has parked on his front yard, may you also park there? Is it really okay to make love in a campground? Can one have too many Texas-themed tattoos? What are the guidelines for male friends helping each other apply sunscreen? Is it okay to buy my daughter a homecoming mum and say it’s from a secret admirer? How old need a boy be to receive the gift of a first gun? What can I do to keep varmints from destroying my beautiful landscaping? Do I have to go with my family to take a bluebonnet photo this year? What’s the best cure for jellyfish stings? Propane or charcoal? Will hiring a lawn service to do my yard work make me soft? Is it wrong to wear your football team’s jersey to church? Is it real Tex-Mex if it’s served with a side of black beans? How do I break into the business of ranching? When out at a dance hall, do I need to stick with the one that brung me? What do I tell my young son when he asks me to identify a roadside crop I don’t recognize? Can I have school spirit for a college I didn’t attend? How many Gulf oysters does it take for a person to see results from the aphrodisiac qualities that they are said to possess? May I pick the bluebonnets? What are the rules of the road when it comes to driving behind a tractor? If I hit a deer with my car, is it legal to collect it and eat it? Is there such thing as gravel-road etiquette, and if so, how best can I teach it to the neighbors? How do I get out of a wedding scheduled for Super Bowl Sunday? Is disciplining my niece over spilt Dublin Dr Pepper okay? Are “truck nuts” appropriate? Do country dancers ever go clockwise? Can I shoot a rattlesnake in my suburban backyard? May I keep a loose dog even if I have a pretty good idea where he came from? Is there a point at which I should stop condoning my daughter’s tomboy side? What are the rules regarding the setup of a new tailgating spot? Is it legal to be buried on my own property? Should I unleash my dogs on the possum that visits my back porch? If two ranches are separated by a length of old barbed-wire fencing and that fence needs repair, who is responsible come fence-mending time? Have rural Texans always been closed-minded about clothes? Why is driving allowed on beaches in Texas? Can you recommend a cure for cedar fever? Does anyone ever have an actual “roll” in the hay? Is there really “no such thing as bad barbecue”? Are the banks of a river free to use for camping? How is it possible that the word “Texan” is not accepted for play in the game Words With Friends? When did we start referring to a chicken’s “second joint” as its thigh? Tell us about your little sidekick? Instead of handing my pocketknife over to airport security, I used a service that promised to mail it back to me. I haven’t seen it since. Is it gone forever? Can you recommend other Texas beaches that compare with the old South Padre Island? What should I do if I encounter a tornado while driving? How should a Texan handle himself in the presence of a small stinging insect? I let my daughter use my husband’s chili pot to tie-dye some T-shirts, and he’s really upset. How do I make it right? Is not liking Willie Nelson’s music a relationship deal-breaker? My husband and I are Texans living in Florida, but recently he told someone that we were from Florida. Will you please explain to him why this cannot continue? What do I tell my friend who insists on giving Tennessee credit for the “birth of Texas”? I’ve been thinking about getting a license to carry a gun, but my wife insists this is a bad idea. I seek your counsel. My wife-to-be loves animals and wants a miniature Vietnamese potbellied pig as a wedding gift. Is this insane?

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2016 Religious Communication Association Book of the Year AwardIn God Mocks, Terry Lindvall ventures into the muddy and dangerous realm of religious satire, chronicling its evolution from the biblical wit and humor of the Hebrew prophets through the Roman Era and the Middle Ages all the way up to the present. He takes the reader on a journey through the work of Chaucer and his Canterbury Tales, Cervantes, Jonathan Swift, and Mark Twain, and ending with the mediated entertainment of modern wags like Stephen Colbert. Lindvall finds that there is a method to the madness of these mockers: true satire, he argues, is at its heart moral outrage expressed in laughter. But there are remarkable differences in how these religious satirists express their outrage.The changing costumes of religious satirists fit their times. The earthy coarse language of Martin Luther and Sir Thomas More during the carnival spirit of the late medieval period was refined with the enlightened wit of AlexTrade ReviewLindvalls prose is elegant, and he is a fine guide on this rollicking, significant tour de force that belongs in all academic literature. * Catholic Library World *God Mocksleads readers through the comic savagery that believers have perfected over the centuries...Lindvall's book unfurls a delightfully variegated tapestry. * Christianity Today *Readers of Lindvall will certainly understand satire better, while homilists who borrow from his wealth of examples will prompt at least a few hearty laughs from the pews. * Emmanuel *This is an excellent overview and introduction to numerous authors of religious satire...will appeal to readers of literary criticism and church history buffs seeking a unique perspective. * Library Journal *Lindvall provides a comedic...analysis of the role of satire in religious life across the ages. Lindvall makes the case that satire has been part of religious observances from the outset. * Publishers Weekly *God Mocksshould be required reading for all ministers and religious bloggers that regularly speak or write with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other. * Patheos *From Balaam's ass to Erasmus to Kierkegaard to The Onion, Lindvall finds redemption in satire's impulse to make us better human beings. * The Christian Century *God Mocksis a catalogue of hundreds of years of religious satire, parody, caricature, commentary, and mockery and most importantly, the differencebetween each and why some are more effective than others all intended to comment on the influence and practices of various religion orders and organizations over the centuries. * San Francisco Book Review *Terry Lindvall, a stand-up comedian cleverly disguised as an academic, makes the difficult art of humor look easy withGod Mocks. * Virginia-Pilot *Lindvall showcases his breadth as a historian and flair as a writer. He presents an abundance of content with a witty turn of phrase, which many will drink in with delight … it seems implicit that the book was written for educated readers—those who have some knowledge of history and comedic writing. It would certainly be suitable for an upper-level undergraduate or graduate level classroom. -- Religious Studies ReviewThis is a godsend for those interested in the role of humor in Christianity. It is remarkably comprehensive and detailed without being pedantic. Lindvalls writing sparkles with the same wit he is chronicling, making this book a delight to read. -- John Morreall,author of Comedy, Tragedy, and ReligionI read Lindvalls book with great appreciation and learned a lot. It contained so much more than I expected, a virtual history of religious mockery, which no one has attempted before. It is a significant contribution to religious and cultural studies. Beside that, it is a just plain good read. -- Harvey Cox,Hollis Research Professor of Divinity, Harvard University

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Book Synopsis15 Bytes Book Award 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Gold Medal Winner In English disparatemeans different or miscellaneousapt descriptors of these essays by Patrick Madden. In Spanish, however, disparatemeans nonsense, folly, or absurdity,words appropriate to Madden's goal of undercutting any notion that essays must be serious business. Thus, in this collection, the essays are frivolous and lively, aiming to make readers laugh while they think about such abstract subjects as happiness and memory and unpredictability. In this vein, Madden takes sidelong swipes at weighty topics via form, with wildly meandering essays, abandoned essays in honor of the long tradition of essayists disparaging their own efforts, and guerrilla essayswhich slip in quietly under the guise of a borrowed form, abruptly attack, and promptly escape, leaving laughter and contemplation in their wake. Madden also incorporates cameos from guest essayists, including Mary Cappello, Matthew Gavin Frank, David Trade Review"If you love the personal essay, or are open to learning to love it, the freewheeling, luminous, disparate Patrick Madden is well worth the time."—David Kirkham, Lit Pub"Disparates honors the futile and the essential in both content and form. Don’t read this collection if you hate essays, especially lyric essays, or dislike being reminded that you are reading an essay. Nor should you read this book if you demand a point and feel slighted to learn that 'life doesn’t always happen in the best order or with the best details.' This is a book for those who appreciate amusement and 'raucous play.' As for me—a life-long student of essays, and a teacher of them—I’ll be turning to Disparates as a model for a long time to come."—Rachel Rueckert, Tupelo Quarterly"Madden’s essays offer relief—they offer laughter, provoke pondering, and delight in playfulness. . . . Disparates delights in the world and celebrates the essay. It was a joy to read."—Natalie Johansen, Brevity"The writing is playful and marked by humility, with Madden often inviting readers—and other writers—into the narrative. A capable collection of writing that continually reviews itself."—Kirkus Reviews"'Disparates' are 'things so unlike that there is no basis for comparison.' There is surely no basis for comparison of these essays to any other book I've read."—Linda Marshall, Pop Matters “Patrick Madden has made a career championing the essay—its traditions, its tenets, and its opportunities. In this, his third collection, Madden masterfully demonstrates a crucial (and often overlooked) element of the form—raucous play—in each smart, active piece. Disparates plays constantly: with shape, with subject, with language; it even plays well with others in several lively collaborations. I savored this collection over several days like it was a sampler of fine candy . . . and then I found twenty bucks.”—Elena Passarello, author of Animals Strike Curious Poses“You’re in for a treat picking up Pat Madden’s Disparates, a book that doubles down so hard on its disparity it ends up holding together in surprising ways. Madden is maniacal in his fidelity to found forms (eBay auction listing, OED definition, literary translation, wordfind puzzle, etc.) and seemingly bad ideas (composing an essay by machine-learned predictive text, writing pangram haiku, discussing the band Rush), but due to his prodigious enthusiasm and intelligence he lands more jumps than not. My favorite feature of Disparates seems at first like the book’s worst idea: most of these essays feature other writers in guest spots. The overall effect is that of a perforated, collaborative self, manifesting exactly the kind of generosity and playfulness we could use a lot more of in literary nonfiction.”—Ander Monson, author of I Will Take the Answer“Disparates is a generous romp of a book. Patrick Madden’s essays open windows onto glee and silliness as well as grief and love. In forms as wide-ranging as Balderdash, wordsearch, Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style, and James Brady’s bygone Parade feature “In Step With…,” Madden shows us again, as in his previous books, that the daily stuff of life sings out for examination and play. Read with an eye peeled for: Dr. Demento, the Jackalope, pahoehoe lava, and the important reminder that ‘Laughter is a taste of your own medicine’. ‘Whenever I fix/ my quips to the jazzy world,/ I come back agape,’ he writes. After reading Disparates, I feel the same: changed, alive to surprise, comforted, dazzled.”—Joni Tevis, author of The World Is on Fire“You cannot help but read Madden’s essays and grin at his deadpan maniacal love for detail and life and kids and anecdotes and wrinkles in the fabric of nominal reality. The guy is obsessed with nominal reality and all the shimmers and windows in it. A terrific essayist, and even better, wholly and utterly unique—there really isn’t an essayist today who writes like this, I think, and for all Madden’s worshipping of Montaigne, Madden’s more interesting and absorbing and funny. Heresy! But it’s true.”—the late Brian Doyle, author of One Long River of SongTable of Contents/disparate/ Writer Michael Martone’s Leftover Water: Imbibe literary genius (dozens of authors) in one swig! Nostalgia (feat. Lawrence Sutin) Insomnia (feat. Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas) Unpredictable Essays Laughter (feat. Jericho Parms) Order Memorizing the Lyrics Repast Happiness (feat. Amy Leach) Memory Alfonsina y el Mar Mea Culpa Expectations (feat. Desirae Matherly) Freewill (feat. Joe Oestreich) In Step with . . . Montaigne (feat. David Lazar) Timing Inertia Thumbs (feat. Elena Passarello & Wendy S. Walters) Smells (feat. Stephen Haynie) The Proverbial __________ Poetry Old Time Rock and Roll (feat. Michael Martone) The Arrogance of Style Distance (feat. Joni Tevis) Beat on the Brat Against the Wind Pangram Haiku Plums (feat. Matthew Gavin Frank) Solstice Listening (feat. Mary Cappello)

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Book Synopsis2021 Clara Johnson Award from Jane''s Stories Press Foundation 2020 Gold Winner for Autobiography & Memoir in the Foreword INDIES Many are haunted and obsessed by their own eventual deaths, but perhaps no one as much as Sue William Silverman. This thematically linked collection of essays charts Silverman’s attempt to confront her fears of that ultimate unknown. Her dread was fomented in part by a sexual assault, hidden for years, that led to an awareness that death and sex are in some ways inextricable, an everyday reality many women know too well. Through gallows humor, vivid realism, and fantastical speculation, How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences explores this fear of death and the author’s desire to survive it. From cruising New Jersey’s industry-blighted landscape in a gold Plymouth to visiting the emergency room for maladies both real and imagined to suffering the stifling strictness of an intractable piano teTrade Review"Because of the distinctive subject matter and Silverman’s vast writing talents, How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences will appeal to new and experienced readers alike; notably, it will also draw teachers of creative writing, who will cherish it for the many essays that can be taught as models of braided and segmented forms."—Jody Keisner, Hippocampus Magazine"Honoring subconscious logic, How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences makes the gambit that the mysteries of the self are both keys to understanding and uncertainties to be celebrated. We become who we are without being fully conscious of our choices—probing those choices won’t give us easy answers, but the discoveries along the way will be illuminating and well worth the necessary befuddlements."—Elizabeth Kadetsky, Literary Hub"What do we do with those memories that carry with them the ability to sink us? According to Silverman, in order to survive and grow, we have to collect them, transform them, and let them transform us."—Chanel Dubofsky, Lilith"Silverman undertakes the questions some of us are too afraid to ask, and we find ourselves rooting for her, flying down Route 17, because in doing so we are also rooting for ourselves."—Rachel Rueckert, Columbia Journal“A joyously unconventional memoir written at least in part as a hedge against mortality. It will shake loose memories, invite you to ponder, and, maybe best of all, make you laugh. This is a marvelously written, imaginative, and seriously funny book.”—Abigail Thomas, New York Times best-selling author of What Comes Next and How to Like It“With true originality and wit, Silverman takes readers on a wild ride through time, memory, pleasure, and trauma. What remains is a deeply human portrait of one woman’s resilience and the power of her spirit. I couldn’t put it down.”—Christina Haag, New York Times best-selling author of Come to the Edge: A Love Story“Though a book about death should be morbid and depressing, Silverman takes an unusual approach, packing both humor and wit into more than a dozen entertaining essays that may offer comfort to those dealing with death anxiety.”—Bitch Media “The book’s title may suggest this is a morbid book; yet, Silverman in her own clever way leans towards tongue-in-cheek, mixing pop culture, literature, and history with her stories and, of course, her unending quest to survive.”—Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction Table of ContentsAuthor’s Note Ultima Thule Fate 1 Clotho spins the thread of life The Eternal Reign of Miss Route 17 13 Ways of Surviving New Jersey Miss Route 17 Refuses to Grow Old The Three Fates: How Much Is the Moon Worth? The Remarkable Death-Defying Exploits of Miss Route 17 Until My Number Comes Up Requiem for a Qwertyist My Death in the Family The Three Fates: Drawing the Shades A Member of the Wedding Fate 2 Lachesis measures the thread of life to determine how long you live The Sick Hypochondriac The Three Fates: On Tedium The Safe Side My Life as a Thanatologist The Janet Leigh Variations The Summer of Hate and Death Here Be Human Dragons Miss Route 17’s Near-Death Experience under the Boardwalk at the New Jersey Shore Sigilisms of Miss Route 17’s Many Hidden Talents Death Comes for the Poet Flirting with the Butcher The Three Fates and the Barefoot Angels Fate 3 Atropos cuts the thread of life with a pair of shears to decide how someone dies At the Terminal Gate Miss Route 17’s Own Graceland Memorabilia: My Guardian Devils and the Phantom of the Opera Gloves The Three Fates: When You Go Of Chrysanthemums, Tupperware, Cremated Remains, and FedEx-ing to the Great Beyond Miss Route 17’s Blue Period The Three Fates: Filling in the Blanks On the Reliance of Verbs to Survive Death The Queen of Panmnesia Acknowledgments Notes

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Book SynopsisThis collection of opinion editorials and recent essays solidifies Midge''s standing as one of the most versatile talents in Native and American writing today.—Samantha Majhor, American Indian Culture and Research JournalBury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s is a powerful and compelling collection of Tiffany Midge’s musings on life, politics, and identity as a Native woman in America. Artfully blending sly humor, social commentary, and meditations on love and loss, Midge weaves short, standalone musings into a memoir that stares down colonialism while chastising hipsters for abusing pumpkin spice. She explains why she doesn’t like pussy hats, mercilessly dismantles pretendians, and confesses her own struggles with white-bread privilege.Midge ponders Standing Rock, feminism, and a tweeting president, all while exploring her own complex identity and the loss of her mother. Employing humor as an act of resistance, these slicTrade Review“This uproarious, truth-telling collection of satirical essays skewer[s] everything from white feminism to ‘Pretendians’ to pumpkin spice. Midge, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, muses bitingly on life as a Native woman in America, staring colonialism and racism in the face wherever she finds them, from offensive Halloween costumes to exploitative language. This collection’s deliciously sharp edges draw laughter and blood alike.”—Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire “Midge is a hilarious satirical essayist and nonfiction writer, and her work brings all the laughs. But they are ‘thinky’ laughs, because the humor doubles back on itself and makes you see so much about modern Native American life in a new way.”—David Treuer, Los Angeles Times “Midge is a wry, astute charmer with an eye for detail and an ear for the scruffy rhythms of American lingo.”—Sarah Vowell, author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States "[A] cornucopia of literary brilliance. The Standing Rock Sioux writer’s wickedly funny autobiography offers laugh-out-loud passages alongside compassionate profiles, bitter sarcasm, and heartbreaking chronicles. Each of the memoirs are short yet potent, compelling the reader to continue while paradoxically causing one to pause to reflect on Midge’s astute observations. Every entry is so well-crafted that the only disappointment you’ll find is when you realize you’ve read them all. Then again, this is a book that demands to be reread."—Ryan Winn, Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education"If you're wondering why the presence of Andrew Jackson's portrait in the Oval Office is offensive, this is your book."—Kirkus"Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s is timely reading for the fall season, with Midge suggesting "Politically Correct Alternatives to Culturally Insensitive Halloween Costumes," and proclaiming "Hey America, I’m Taking Back Thanksgiving." Treat yourself to a fast-moving correction of any vestiges you may have of the stoic, unsmiling Native stereotype and enjoy at least a Tweet or a one-liner from Tiffany Midge. You’re sure to learn something as you laugh."—Jan Hardy, Back in the Stacks"This collection of opinion editorials and recent essays solidifies Midge's standing as one of the most versatile talents in Native and American writing today."—Samantha Majhor, American Indian Culture and Research Journal"[Midge's] no-b.s., take-no-prisoners approach is likely to resound with twenty-something readers, but the older crowd ought to give Midge a look, too."—Joan Curbow, Booklist"Abundant with brilliant satire."—Shelf Awareness“Tiffany Midge is the kind of funny that can make the same joke funny over and over again. Which means, of course, that she is wicked smart, and sly, and that she has her hand on the pulse of the culture in a Roxane Gay-ish way, only funnier, and that she has our number, your number, and my number too, all of our numbers. Which means she is our teacher, if we let her be.”—Pam Houston, author of Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country “Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s drives a spear into the stereotype of Native American stoicism. It is perhaps the funniest nonfiction collection I have ever read. But it is much more than funny: it is moving, honest, and painful as well, and looks at the absurdities of modern America. Midge’s collection is so good it could raise Iron Eyes Cody from the grave and make him laugh till he cries.”—David Treuer, author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee Table of ContentsForeword by Geary Hobson Part I: My Origin Story Is a Cross between “Call Me Ishmael,” a Few Too Many Whiskey Sours Packed in an Old Thermos at the Drive-In Double Feature, and That Little Voice That Says, “You Got This” Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s Headlines Part II: Instead of a “Raised by Wolves” T-Shirt, Mine Says “Raised by Functioning Alcoholics with Intimacy Phobias & Low Self-Esteem” The Jimmy Report My Name Is Moonbeam McSwine The Siam Sequences Part III: Micro (Aggression) Memoirs First World (Story) Problems: Brown Girl Multiple Choice Edition Tweets as Assigned Texts for Native American Studies Course Ghoul, Interrupted Part IV: Garsh Durn It! You Say Patriarchy, I Say Patri-Malarkey, Dollars to Donuts Cuckoo Banana Pants, You Gals & Your Lady Power This ’n’ That An Open Letter to White Women Concerning The Handmaid’s Tale and America’s Historical Amnesia Fertility Rites Wonder Woman Hits Theaters, Smashes Patriarchy Jame Gumb, Hero and Pioneer of the Fat-Positivity Movement Post-Election Message to the 53 Percent Committee of Barnyard Swine to Determine Fate for Women’s Health Champion Our Native Sisters! (but Only Selectively and under Certain Conditions) An Open Letter to White Girls Regarding Pumpkin Spice and Cultural Appropriation Part V: Me, Cutting in Front of All the People in All of the Lines Forever: “It’s Okay, I Literally Was Here First” #DecolonizedAF Thousands of Jingle Dress Dancers Magically Appear at Standing Rock Protector Site Satire Article Goes Viral on Day of 2016 Presidential Election Results Attack of the Fifty-Foot (Lakota) Woman Minnesota Art Gallery to Demolish “Indian Uprisings” Exhibit after Caucasian Community Protest Why I Don’t Like “Pussy” Hats Li-Li-Li-Li-Land, Standing Rock the Musical! Part VI: Merciless Indian Savages? Try Merciless Indian Fabulous! Redeeming the English Language (Acquisition) Series Fifty Shades of Buckskin Conversations with My Lakota Mom Feast Smudge Snag Eight Types of Native Moms Part VII: “Shill the Pretendian, Unfav the Genuine” Is the 2018 Remix of “Kill the Indian, Save the Man” Red like Me: I Knew Rachel Dolezal Back When She Was Indigenous A List of Alternative Identities to Try for Fun and Profit I Have White Bread Privilege Things Pseudo-Native Authors Have Claimed to Be but Actually Are Not You Might Be a Pretendian Part VIII: I Watched Woman Walks Ahead and Frankly Was Offended by the Cookie-Cutter, Stereotypical Portrayal of the Menacing White Soldier Reel Indians Don’t Eat Quiche: The Fight for Authentic Roles in Hollywood Are You There, Christmas? It’s Me, Carol! Post-Election U.S. Open in Racist Tirades Competition West Wing World Part IX: The Native Americans Used EVERY Part of the Sacred Turkey Hey America, I’m Taking Back Thanksgiving Clown Costumes Banned, Racist Native American Halloween Costumes Still Okay Thanksgiving Shopping at Costco: I Just Can’t Even Politically Correct Alternatives to Culturally Insensitive Halloween Costumes Part X: BREAKING NEWS—Your Neighbor Who Said, “Whoa, Dude, This Whole Trump Thing’s, Like, So Fricken Surreal,” Might Actually Be on to Something Step Right Up, Folks Trump Pardons Zombie Apocalypse There’s Something about Andrew Jackson Trump Administration to Repeal Bison as First National Mammal President Trump Scheduled for Whirlwind Tour to Desecrate World’s Treasures Part XI: The Trump Administration’s Pop-Up, Coloring, Scratch ’n’ Sniff, Edible, and Radioactive Activity Book You’ve Got Mail! Executive Order Requiring All Americans Take Up Cigarettes by End of 2017 The Wild West (Wing) and Wild Bill Hiccup Give a Chump a Chance Ars Poetica by Donald J. Trump Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThis collection of opinion editorials and recent essays solidifies Midge''s standing as one of the most versatile talents in Native and American writing today.—Samantha Majhor, American Indian Culture and Research JournalBury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s is a powerful and compelling collection of Tiffany Midge’s musings on life, politics, and identity as a Native woman in America. Artfully blending sly humor, social commentary, and meditations on love and loss, Midge weaves short, standalone musings into a memoir that stares down colonialism while chastising hipsters for abusing pumpkin spice. She explains why she doesn’t like pussy hats, mercilessly dismantles pretendians, and confesses her own struggles with white-bread privilege.Midge ponders Standing Rock, feminism, and a tweeting president, all while exploring her own complex identity and the loss of her mother. Employing humor as an act of resistance, these slicTrade Review“This uproarious, truth-telling collection of satirical essays skewer[s] everything from white feminism to ‘Pretendians’ to pumpkin spice. Midge, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, muses bitingly on life as a Native woman in America, staring colonialism and racism in the face wherever she finds them, from offensive Halloween costumes to exploitative language. This collection’s deliciously sharp edges draw laughter and blood alike.”—Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire “Midge is a hilarious satirical essayist and nonfiction writer, and her work brings all the laughs. But they are ‘thinky’ laughs, because the humor doubles back on itself and makes you see so much about modern Native American life in a new way.”—David Treuer, Los Angeles Times “Midge is a wry, astute charmer with an eye for detail and an ear for the scruffy rhythms of American lingo.”—Sarah Vowell, author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States "[A] cornucopia of literary brilliance. The Standing Rock Sioux writer’s wickedly funny autobiography offers laugh-out-loud passages alongside compassionate profiles, bitter sarcasm, and heartbreaking chronicles. Each of the memoirs are short yet potent, compelling the reader to continue while paradoxically causing one to pause to reflect on Midge’s astute observations. Every entry is so well-crafted that the only disappointment you’ll find is when you realize you’ve read them all. Then again, this is a book that demands to be reread."—Ryan Winn, Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education"If you're wondering why the presence of Andrew Jackson's portrait in the Oval Office is offensive, this is your book."—Kirkus"Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s is timely reading for the fall season, with Midge suggesting "Politically Correct Alternatives to Culturally Insensitive Halloween Costumes," and proclaiming "Hey America, I’m Taking Back Thanksgiving." Treat yourself to a fast-moving correction of any vestiges you may have of the stoic, unsmiling Native stereotype and enjoy at least a Tweet or a one-liner from Tiffany Midge. You’re sure to learn something as you laugh."—Jan Hardy, Back in the Stacks"This collection of opinion editorials and recent essays solidifies Midge's standing as one of the most versatile talents in Native and American writing today."—Samantha Majhor, American Indian Culture and Research Journal"[Midge's] no-b.s., take-no-prisoners approach is likely to resound with twenty-something readers, but the older crowd ought to give Midge a look, too."—Joan Curbow, Booklist"Abundant with brilliant satire."—Shelf Awareness“Tiffany Midge is the kind of funny that can make the same joke funny over and over again. Which means, of course, that she is wicked smart, and sly, and that she has her hand on the pulse of the culture in a Roxane Gay-ish way, only funnier, and that she has our number, your number, and my number too, all of our numbers. Which means she is our teacher, if we let her be.”—Pam Houston, author of Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country “Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s drives a spear into the stereotype of Native American stoicism. It is perhaps the funniest nonfiction collection I have ever read. But it is much more than funny: it is moving, honest, and painful as well, and looks at the absurdities of modern America. Midge’s collection is so good it could raise Iron Eyes Cody from the grave and make him laugh till he cries.”—David Treuer, author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee Table of ContentsForeword by Geary Hobson Part I: My Origin Story Is a Cross between “Call Me Ishmael,” a Few Too Many Whiskey Sours Packed in an Old Thermos at the Drive-In Double Feature, and That Little Voice That Says, “You Got This” Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s Headlines Part II: Instead of a “Raised by Wolves” T-Shirt, Mine Says “Raised by Functioning Alcoholics with Intimacy Phobias & Low Self-Esteem” The Jimmy Report My Name Is Moonbeam McSwine The Siam Sequences Part III: Micro (Aggression) Memoirs First World (Story) Problems: Brown Girl Multiple Choice Edition Tweets as Assigned Texts for Native American Studies Course Ghoul, Interrupted Part IV: Garsh Durn It! You Say Patriarchy, I Say Patri-Malarkey, Dollars to Donuts Cuckoo Banana Pants, You Gals & Your Lady Power This ’n’ That An Open Letter to White Women Concerning The Handmaid’s Tale and America’s Historical Amnesia Fertility Rites Wonder Woman Hits Theaters, Smashes Patriarchy Jame Gumb, Hero and Pioneer of the Fat-Positivity Movement Post-Election Message to the 53 Percent Committee of Barnyard Swine to Determine Fate for Women’s Health Champion Our Native Sisters! (but Only Selectively and under Certain Conditions) An Open Letter to White Girls Regarding Pumpkin Spice and Cultural Appropriation Part V: Me, Cutting in Front of All the People in All of the Lines Forever: “It’s Okay, I Literally Was Here First” #DecolonizedAF Thousands of Jingle Dress Dancers Magically Appear at Standing Rock Protector Site Satire Article Goes Viral on Day of 2016 Presidential Election Results Attack of the Fifty-Foot (Lakota) Woman Minnesota Art Gallery to Demolish “Indian Uprisings” Exhibit after Caucasian Community Protest Why I Don’t Like “Pussy” Hats Li-Li-Li-Li-Land, Standing Rock the Musical! Part VI: Merciless Indian Savages? Try Merciless Indian Fabulous! Redeeming the English Language (Acquisition) Series Fifty Shades of Buckskin Conversations with My Lakota Mom Feast Smudge Snag Eight Types of Native Moms Part VII: “Shill the Pretendian, Unfav the Genuine” Is the 2018 Remix of “Kill the Indian, Save the Man” Red like Me: I Knew Rachel Dolezal Back When She Was Indigenous A List of Alternative Identities to Try for Fun and Profit I Have White Bread Privilege Things Pseudo-Native Authors Have Claimed to Be but Actually Are Not You Might Be a Pretendian Part VIII: I Watched Woman Walks Ahead and Frankly Was Offended by the Cookie-Cutter, Stereotypical Portrayal of the Menacing White Soldier Reel Indians Don’t Eat Quiche: The Fight for Authentic Roles in Hollywood Are You There, Christmas? It’s Me, Carol! Post-Election U.S. Open in Racist Tirades Competition West Wing World Part IX: The Native Americans Used EVERY Part of the Sacred Turkey Hey America, I’m Taking Back Thanksgiving Clown Costumes Banned, Racist Native American Halloween Costumes Still Okay Thanksgiving Shopping at Costco: I Just Can’t Even Politically Correct Alternatives to Culturally Insensitive Halloween Costumes Part X: BREAKING NEWS—Your Neighbor Who Said, “Whoa, Dude, This Whole Trump Thing’s, Like, So Fricken Surreal,” Might Actually Be on to Something Step Right Up, Folks Trump Pardons Zombie Apocalypse There’s Something about Andrew Jackson Trump Administration to Repeal Bison as First National Mammal President Trump Scheduled for Whirlwind Tour to Desecrate World’s Treasures Part XI: The Trump Administration’s Pop-Up, Coloring, Scratch ’n’ Sniff, Edible, and Radioactive Activity Book You’ve Got Mail! Executive Order Requiring All Americans Take Up Cigarettes by End of 2017 The Wild West (Wing) and Wild Bill Hiccup Give a Chump a Chance Ars Poetica by Donald J. Trump Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisBeloved Nebraska folklorist Roger Welsch explores our passion and love for dogs.Trade Review“My buddy Rog is so in tune with dogs that I’ve actually watched him scratch behind his ear with his back foot.”—Mick Maun, dog guy Arf arf grrrr WOOF!” [“Forget the damn book! Throw the STICK!”]—Roscoe Dawg “Waouh vaf wouf jappe jappe.”—Pucci le Beau, Roger Welsch’s Parisian granddog “Roger is a brilliant thinker and gifted writer who whips out a mighty tasty yummy pretty much on demand.”—Triumph, the Compliment DogTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. What's in a Name 2. The Way They Are 3. Inner Callings 4. The Devious Courses of Doggie Thought 5. What They See, What They Hear, What They Know 6. To Sleep, Perhaps to Dream 7. The Other Dog's Whatever 8. Passing On 9. Canine Existentialism 10. A Dog Diet 11. Laughing with Them, Not at Them 12. Who Exactly Is the Stable One in This Relationship? 13. Togetherness 14. Whence They Come 15. Being Known by the Company You Keep 16. School Time, School Time 17. On the Road Again 18. You Gotta Ee-lim-i-nate the Negative 19. Disgusting Is as Disgusting Does 20. In the Case of Dogs, They Are What the Other Dog Eats 21. A Bark Is Worse than a Bite Only if You're Not Being Bit 22. "I Yam What I Yam" 23. Born Free, Sort Of 24. Cleanliness Is Next to Dogginess 25. Of House and Home 26. All Work and No Play 27. Permission Granted . . . Enter! 28. In Sickness and in Health 29. God Bless the Caregivers Afterword Afterword to the Paperback Edition Index

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Book SynopsisIn these deeply funny and introspective essays, Andrew Farkas boldly surveys the “in-of-doors,” where a higher degree of comfort can be found than out-of-doors, and discovers that our lives are controlled much more by fiction than by anything “real.” Trade Review"Ironic, joking, thoughtful, nostalgic, and moving, these lyric essays, reflections, lighthearted arguments, and odes meditate playfully on the peculiar human environments we discover indoors."—Hugh Sheehy, Full Stop"The Great Indoorsman is the work of a true craftsperson and the phrasing and structure feels akin to architecture, all lines, angles and inspired thinking, leavened with a pop culture and extended cultural knowingness that left me smiling and nodding my head throughout."—Ben Tanzer, litreactor.com“Absurdist and absurdly amusing, Andrew Farkas takes readers on a sublime tour through dive bars and coffeehouses, dilapidated movie theaters and dying malls. A doctor of knowledge, erudite but humble, Farkas creates an enchanting yet down-to-earth collection perfect for indoors, outdoors, or anywhere in between.”—Kathleen Rooney, author of Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey“Andrew Farkas, the master renovator in these crafted and crafty essays, is the ultimate interior decorator of all things turned inside out. Here the reflections reflect infinite rooms where we are, at once, lost and found, found and lost with-in hallways of infinite with-in-ings.”—Michael Martone, editor of The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne“Throughout this deliriously inventive collection, Andrew Farkas operates like a 1930s Rube Goldberg cartoon jalopy, nimbly galumphing through mundane worlds—a waiting room, a hamburger joint, Tuscaloosa. The elevated performance is grounded by a sincere, persistent question: Where is home?”—David Giffels, author of Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand AmericaTable of ContentsThe Great Indoorsman Wait Here? A Filk Tale Pool Hall Legend Somewhere Better Than This Place A Front or Affront Kitchen Sink Realism Time Stands Still When You’re Havin’ Fun On Drinking the Kool-Aid in a Coffeehouse Still Life with Alarm Clocks Everything You Were Looking For An Essay About Nothing When Hamburger Station Is Busy Last Year at Chapel Hill Mall Bowl-a-Rama Noir Girl Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisAfter the death of Joseph Stalin, Soviet-era Russia experienced a flourishing artistic movement due to relaxed censorship and economic growth. In this atmosphere of freedom, Russia's satirical magazine Krokodil became rejuvenated. John Etty explores Soviet graphic satire through Krokodil and its political cartoons.

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Book SynopsisAfter the death of Joseph Stalin, Soviet-era Russia experienced a flourishing artistic movement due to relaxed censorship and new economic growth. In this new atmosphere of freedom, Russia's satirical magazine Krokodil (The Crocodile) became rejuvenated. John Etty explores Soviet graphic satire through Krokodil and its political cartoons. He investigates the forms, production, consumption, and functions of Krokodil, focusing on the period from 1954 to 1964.Krokodil remained the longest-serving and most important satirical journal in the Soviet Union, unique in producing state-sanctioned graphic satirical comment on Soviet and international affairs for over seventy years. Etty's analysis of Krokodil extends and enhances our understanding of Soviet graphic satire beyond state-sponsored propaganda.For most of its life, Krokodil consisted of a sixteen-page satirical magazine comprising a range of cartoons, photographs, and verbal texts. Authored by professional and

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2024 BASEES (British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies) Women''s Forum.Authoritarian Laughter explores the political history of the satire and humor magazine Broom published in Soviet Lithuania. Artists, writers, and journalists were required to create state-sponsored Soviet humor and serve the Communist Party after Lithuania was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940. Neringa Klumbyte investigates official attempts to shape citizens into Soviet subjects and engage them through a culture of popular humor. Broom was multidirectionalit both facilitated Communist Party agendas and expressed opposition toward the Soviet regime. Official satire and humor in Soviet Lithuania increasingly created dystopian visions of Soviet modernity and were a forum for critical ideas and nationalist sentiments that were mobilized in anti-Soviet revolutionary laughter in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Authoritarian LauTrade ReviewThis book—a historical ethnography of Soviet Lithuania's satire magazine The Broom—is an insightful reading produced thirty years after the state discipline of Soviet socialism was replaced by the self-discipline of Lithuanian nationalism. * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Authoritarian Laughter 1. Banality of Soviet Power 2. Political Intimacy 3. The Soviet Predicament 4. Censorial Indistinction 5. Political Aesthetics 6. Multidirectional Laughter 7. Satirical Justice 8. Soviet Dystopia Post Scriptum: Revolution and Post-authoritarian Laughter Conclusion: Lost Laughter and Authoritarian Stigma

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2024 BASEES (British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies) Women''s Forum.Authoritarian Laughter explores the political history of the satire and humor magazine Broom published in Soviet Lithuania. Artists, writers, and journalists were required to create state-sponsored Soviet humor and serve the Communist Party after Lithuania was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940. Neringa Klumbyte investigates official attempts to shape citizens into Soviet subjects and engage them through a culture of popular humor. Broom was multidirectionalit both facilitated Communist Party agendas and expressed opposition toward the Soviet regime. Official satire and humor in Soviet Lithuania increasingly created dystopian visions of Soviet modernity and were a forum for critical ideas and nationalist sentiments that were mobilized in anti-Soviet revolutionary laughter in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Authoritarian LauTrade ReviewThis book—a historical ethnography of Soviet Lithuania's satire magazine The Broom—is an insightful reading produced thirty years after the state discipline of Soviet socialism was replaced by the self-discipline of Lithuanian nationalism. * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Authoritarian Laughter 1. Banality of Soviet Power 2. Political Intimacy 3. The Soviet Predicament 4. Censorial Indistinction 5. Political Aesthetics 6. Multidirectional Laughter 7. Satirical Justice 8. Soviet Dystopia Post Scriptum: Revolution and Post-authoritarian Laughter Conclusion: Lost Laughter and Authoritarian Stigma

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