Fred Stoller’s primary passion in life seems to be self pity. Entire chapters of Maybe We’ll Have You Back are dedicated to the minor disappointments of: 1. Meeting a famous director at a mall, setting up that he would send her a demo reel of himself, sending it and nothing coming of it. 2. Eating breakfast …
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Sometimes we worry too much about the way we’re “supposed to” do things instead of the way we’ll get the best results. If you ask most people how they think you’re “supposed to” get started as an author, they’d tell you that you’re “supposed to” send out queries, get signed by an agent, snag a …
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Ed McBain writes with intensity and ambition. He goes so big that at times it could easily come off as pretentious or even “purple,” but the material is so blue collar that it balances things out and somehow works. The Pusher is the third book in the seemingly never-ending 87th precinct series. Both in plot and …
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On one hand, I can pay In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks one of the best compliments you can pay a comedy book: While reading before bed, I kept waking up the person next to me because I was laughing. On the other hand, I might like Adam Carolla slightly less after reading this. …
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As I was reading Bossypants, I commented to a friend, “Tina Fey seems a lot colder in text. Almost mean. She’s funny, but she seems like the kind of person that wouldn’t like animals or something.” What does she say toward the end of the book? You guessed it: “And I have no affinity for …
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