Author: Lance Rubin
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0525644679
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A tragicomic story of bad dates, bad news, bad performances, and one girl's determination to find the funny in high school from the author of Denton Little's Deathdate. Winnie Friedman has been waiting for the world to catch on to what she already knows: she's hilarious. It might be a long wait, though. After bombing a stand-up set at her own bat mitzvah, Winnie has kept her jokes to herself. Well, to herself and her dad, a former comedian and her inspiration. Then, on the second day of tenth grade, the funniest guy in school actually laughs at a comment she makes in the lunch line and asks her to join the improv troupe. Maybe he's even . . . flirting? Just when Winnie's ready to say yes to comedy again, her father reveals that he's been diagnosed with ALS. That is . . . not funny. Her dad's still making jokes, though, which feels like a good thing. And Winnie's prepared to be his straight man if that's what he wants. But is it what he needs? Caught up in a spiral of epically bad dates, bad news, and bad performances, Winnie's struggling to see the humor in it all. But finding a way to laugh is exactly what will see her through. **A Junior Library Guild Selection**
Blasts, Cries, Laughter
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher: New Directions Poetry Pamphlet
ISBN: 9780811221788
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A new, shorter collection by America's preeminent living poet and social activist, who is just as fiery and provocative as ever at 94 years old.
Publisher: New Directions Poetry Pamphlet
ISBN: 9780811221788
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A new, shorter collection by America's preeminent living poet and social activist, who is just as fiery and provocative as ever at 94 years old.
Crying Laughing
Author: Lance Rubin
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0525644679
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A tragicomic story of bad dates, bad news, bad performances, and one girl's determination to find the funny in high school from the author of Denton Little's Deathdate. Winnie Friedman has been waiting for the world to catch on to what she already knows: she's hilarious. It might be a long wait, though. After bombing a stand-up set at her own bat mitzvah, Winnie has kept her jokes to herself. Well, to herself and her dad, a former comedian and her inspiration. Then, on the second day of tenth grade, the funniest guy in school actually laughs at a comment she makes in the lunch line and asks her to join the improv troupe. Maybe he's even . . . flirting? Just when Winnie's ready to say yes to comedy again, her father reveals that he's been diagnosed with ALS. That is . . . not funny. Her dad's still making jokes, though, which feels like a good thing. And Winnie's prepared to be his straight man if that's what he wants. But is it what he needs? Caught up in a spiral of epically bad dates, bad news, and bad performances, Winnie's struggling to see the humor in it all. But finding a way to laugh is exactly what will see her through. **A Junior Library Guild Selection**
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0525644679
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A tragicomic story of bad dates, bad news, bad performances, and one girl's determination to find the funny in high school from the author of Denton Little's Deathdate. Winnie Friedman has been waiting for the world to catch on to what she already knows: she's hilarious. It might be a long wait, though. After bombing a stand-up set at her own bat mitzvah, Winnie has kept her jokes to herself. Well, to herself and her dad, a former comedian and her inspiration. Then, on the second day of tenth grade, the funniest guy in school actually laughs at a comment she makes in the lunch line and asks her to join the improv troupe. Maybe he's even . . . flirting? Just when Winnie's ready to say yes to comedy again, her father reveals that he's been diagnosed with ALS. That is . . . not funny. Her dad's still making jokes, though, which feels like a good thing. And Winnie's prepared to be his straight man if that's what he wants. But is it what he needs? Caught up in a spiral of epically bad dates, bad news, and bad performances, Winnie's struggling to see the humor in it all. But finding a way to laugh is exactly what will see her through. **A Junior Library Guild Selection**
A Coney Island of the Mind
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200417
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Twenty-nine poems from the 1950's.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200417
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Twenty-nine poems from the 1950's.
Laugh Till You Cry
Author: Joan Lowery Nixon
Publisher: Yearling Books
ISBN: 0440237742
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Thirteen years old and a budding comedian, Cody has little to laugh about after he and his mother move from California to Texas to help his sick grandmother and he is framed by his cousin for calling in bomb threats to their school.
Publisher: Yearling Books
ISBN: 0440237742
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Thirteen years old and a budding comedian, Cody has little to laugh about after he and his mother move from California to Texas to help his sick grandmother and he is framed by his cousin for calling in bomb threats to their school.
The Secret Meaning of Things
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200455
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The Secret Meaning of Things is Lawrence Ferlinghetti's fourth book of poems.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200455
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The Secret Meaning of Things is Lawrence Ferlinghetti's fourth book of poems.
These are My Rivers
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811212731
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Ferlinghetti has been telling the truth in poems for more than four decades, and every indication is that he will continue to be heard when all the pretenders have turned to witless stone. Certainly the more than 50 pages of new work included here with his own selections of earlier work continue to maintain the faith. Published by New Directions, 80 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10011. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811212731
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Ferlinghetti has been telling the truth in poems for more than four decades, and every indication is that he will continue to be heard when all the pretenders have turned to witless stone. Certainly the more than 50 pages of new work included here with his own selections of earlier work continue to maintain the faith. Published by New Directions, 80 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10011. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Time of Useful Consciousness
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811220651
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book since Poetry as Insurgent Art, a new call to action and a vivid picture of civilization moving towards its brink.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811220651
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book since Poetry as Insurgent Art, a new call to action and a vivid picture of civilization moving towards its brink.
Author:
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
It's Better to Laugh Than to Cry
Author: John Seland
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1546272933
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
It’s better to laugh than to cry. Many years ago, when I was a college student, I took a job peddling mail during the Christmas holidays. One day, as I was passing out the mail, one of the recipients invited me to step into his house for a second or two in order to warm up. “You’ll do a much better job,” he said, “if you rest and warm up for a few minutes.” However, as soon as I entered, his wife approached with three tall glasses of port wine. Not wanting to refuse their kindness, I accepted the offer and drank the wine. How I managed to distribute the rest of the mail to all the other homes along my route is due—I am convinced—to the grace of the almighty God. One of the stories, “The Mail Must Go Through,” will tell you what happened after I drank that tall glass of delicious port wine. As time went on, I began to add more stories, all of them humorous, with the simple purpose of stimulating the reader’s sense of humor. May you enjoy reading the stories as much as I enjoyed writing them.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1546272933
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
It’s better to laugh than to cry. Many years ago, when I was a college student, I took a job peddling mail during the Christmas holidays. One day, as I was passing out the mail, one of the recipients invited me to step into his house for a second or two in order to warm up. “You’ll do a much better job,” he said, “if you rest and warm up for a few minutes.” However, as soon as I entered, his wife approached with three tall glasses of port wine. Not wanting to refuse their kindness, I accepted the offer and drank the wine. How I managed to distribute the rest of the mail to all the other homes along my route is due—I am convinced—to the grace of the almighty God. One of the stories, “The Mail Must Go Through,” will tell you what happened after I drank that tall glass of delicious port wine. As time went on, I began to add more stories, all of them humorous, with the simple purpose of stimulating the reader’s sense of humor. May you enjoy reading the stories as much as I enjoyed writing them.
Dirty Poem (Vol. 18) (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets)
Author: Ferreira Gullar
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811224783
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Considered the greatest long poem in 20th century Brazilian poetry, Ferreira's Gullar's Dirty Poem was written as a response to the Brazilian dictatorship that put him in exile and murdered thousands. Written in 1975 in Buenos Aires when Ferreira Gullar was in political exile from the Brazilian dictatorship, Dirty Poem is an epic poem that amid life events traces the author’s political and artistic evolution and is by most accounts the most important long poem of contemporary Brazilian literature. Scholar and critic Otto Maria Carpeaux wrote: “Dirty Poem deserves to be called ‘National Poem’ because it embodies all of the experiences, victories, defeats, and hopes in the life of the Brazilian citizen.” It is a hypnotic work that draws on the poet’s memory of adolescence in the seaside city of Sao Luís do Maranhao during World War II and deals openly with the “dirty” shamefulness of a socio-economic system that abuses its citizens with poverty, sexism, greed, and fear.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811224783
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Considered the greatest long poem in 20th century Brazilian poetry, Ferreira's Gullar's Dirty Poem was written as a response to the Brazilian dictatorship that put him in exile and murdered thousands. Written in 1975 in Buenos Aires when Ferreira Gullar was in political exile from the Brazilian dictatorship, Dirty Poem is an epic poem that amid life events traces the author’s political and artistic evolution and is by most accounts the most important long poem of contemporary Brazilian literature. Scholar and critic Otto Maria Carpeaux wrote: “Dirty Poem deserves to be called ‘National Poem’ because it embodies all of the experiences, victories, defeats, and hopes in the life of the Brazilian citizen.” It is a hypnotic work that draws on the poet’s memory of adolescence in the seaside city of Sao Luís do Maranhao during World War II and deals openly with the “dirty” shamefulness of a socio-economic system that abuses its citizens with poverty, sexism, greed, and fear.