The Portable Curmudgeon

Author : Various
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0452266688
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Portable Curmudgeon written by Various and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1992-10-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 1,000 outrageously irreverent quotations, anecdotes, and interviews on a vast array of subjects, from an illustrious list of world class grouches. “If you can’t say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.”—Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Author : Various
Publisher : Plume Books
ISBN 13 : 9780452270305
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Return of the Portable Curmudgeon written by Various and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When turning the other cheek just won't do, try fighting back with the cantankerous remarks of some of the crustiest, grouchiest, and cleverest curmudgeons of all time. Profiles of three world-class wordsmiths--Alexander Woollcott, Oscar Wilde, and Robert Benchley--plus interviews with a variety of caustic commentators make this a collection of barbed remarks second to none.

Author : Jon Winokur
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679763414
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advice to Writers written by Jon Winokur and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2000-05-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Advice to Writers, Jon Winokur, author of the bestselling The Portable Curmudgeon, gathers the counsel of more than four hundred celebrated authors in a treasury on the world of writing. Here are literary lions on everything from the passive voice to promotion and publicity: James Baldwin on the practiced illusion of effortless prose, Isaac Asimov on the despotic tendencies of editors, John Cheever on the perils of drink, Ivan Turgenev on matrimony and the Muse. Here, too, are the secrets behind the sleight-of-hand practiced by artists from Aristotle to Rita Mae Brown. Sagacious, inspiring, and entertaining, Advice to Writers is an essential volume for the writer in every reader.

Author : Jon Winokur
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466860308
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia Neurotica written by Jon Winokur and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Portable Curmudgeon, a delicious, witty, irreverent A to Z guide to the tics, twitches and safety-valves that characterize our twisted, neurotic modern world. We live in an Age of Anxiety. The events of modern life have overwhelmed the average homo sapiens until getting from Point A to Point B without being overcome by neuroses is a practical impossibility. Enter: the comic safety valve. Jon Winokur's Encyclopedia Neurotica is a delightful garden of the ills that beset modern man. Entries include excerpts from both popular and arcane published works, as well as original definitions, essential terms and the occasional cutting-edge concept, such as "celebriphilia, the pathological desire to sleep with a celebrity, suffered chiefly by groupies." Some samples from Encyclopedia Neurotica: --Abyss, the: the yawning unfathomable chasm of existential terror --Acquired Situational Narcissism: a condition characterized by grandiosity, lack of empathy, rage, isolation and substance abuse; mainly afflicts celebrities, who tend to be surrounded by enablers --Denial: unconscious defense mechanism that numbs anxiety by refusing to acknowledge unpleasant realities --Manic Run: prolonged state of optimism, excitement and hyperactivity experienced as part of bipolar disorder

Author : Jon Winokur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Return of the Portable Curmudgeon written by Jon Winokur and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jon Winokur
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312354835
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Book of Irony written by Jon Winokur and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-02-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jon Winokur defines and classifies irony and contrasts it with coincidence and cynicism, and other oft-confused concepts that many think are ironic. He looks at the different forms irony can take, from an irony deficiency to visual irony to an understatement, using photographs and relate-able examples from pop culture. * "Irony in Action" looks at irony in language, both verbal and visual, while "Bastions of Irony" and "Masters of Irony" look at institutions and individuals steeped in irony, though not always intentionally. PLUS: * The Annals of Irony looks at irony, and its lack thereof, throughout history. A delight for anyone with a smart, dark sense of humor.

Author : James Garner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 145164261X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Garner Files written by James Garner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revered actor and quintessential self-made man recalls "trying to decipher" William Wyler with Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine, breaking Doris Day's ribs, having a "heart-to-heart and eyeball-to-eyeball" with Steve McQueen, being "a card-carrying liberal--and proud of it," and much more.

Author : Guy Kawasaki
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Computer Curmudgeon written by Guy Kawasaki and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the ultimate collection of Macintosh Conventional--and unconventional--Wisdom. A collection of Macintosh definitions and rules of thumb--humorous one-liners inspired by Ambrose Bierce. Includes reprints of Kawasaki's Mac'ser columns. (Hayden)

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Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780809236817
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Poisonous Quotes written by and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1993-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creative arts. Literature. Drama film. Music. The media. Education.

Author : Jon Winokur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Portable Curmudgeon Redux written by Jon Winokur and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: