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  • That's Not Funny, That's Sick

    The National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured the Mainstream

    de Ellin Stein ...
    "Smart, knowing, and deeply reported, the definitive history of one of modern American humor’s wellsprings." —Kurt Andersen, author of Fantasyland, host of NPR’s Studio 360Labor Day, 1969. Two recent college graduates move to New York to edit a new magazine called The National Lampoon. Over the next decade, Henry Beard and Doug Kenney, along with a loose amalgamation of fellow satirists including ... Leer más

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    That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick

    The National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured the Mainstream

    de Ellin Stein ...
    Narrado por Jim Meskimen ...

    Completo

    15 hora 23 minutos

    The untold story behind a revolution in American comedyLabor Day, 1969. Two recent college graduates move to New York to edit a new magazine called the National Lampoon. Over the next decade, Henry Beard and Doug Kenney, along with a loose amalgamation of fellow satirists such as Michael O'Donoghue and P. J. O'Rourke, popularized a smart, caustic, ironic brand of humor that has become the dominant ... Leer más

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    One of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, J. D. Salinger eluded fans and journalists for most of his life. Now comes a new biography that Peter Ackroyd in the Times of London calls "energetic and magnificently researched"—a book from which "a true picture of Salinger emerges." Filled with new information and revelations garnered from countless interviews, letters ... Leer más

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  • Egghead

    Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone

    de Bo Burnham ...
    A strange and charming collection of hilariously absurd poetry, writing, and illustration from one of today's most popular young comedians?ĶBo Burnham was a precocious teenager living in his parents' attic when he started posting material on YouTube. 100 million people viewed those videos, turning Bo into an online sensation with a huge and dedicated following. Bo taped his first of two Comedy ... Leer más

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    A "suspenseful, elegantly written" account of the author's return to China after thirty years to search for the woman she betrayed to the authorities ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).In the early 1970s, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, Jan Wong traveled from Canada to Beijing University—where she would become one of only two Westerners permitted to study. One day a fellow student, Yin ... Leer más

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  • Plain Secrets

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    de Joe Mackall ...
    Joe Mackall has lived surrounded by the Swartzentruber Amish community of Ashland County, Ohio, for over sixteen years. They are the most traditional and insular of all the Amish sects: the Swartzentrubers live without gas, electricity, or indoor plumbing; without lights on their buggies or cushioned chairs in their homes; and without rumspringa, the recently popularized "running-around time" that ... Leer más

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  • Lord of Publishing

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    A frank and insightful memoir of a life spent in publishing, by one of literature's most legendary agentsSterling Lord has led an extraordinary life, from his youth in small-town Iowa to his post-war founding and editing of an English-language magazine in Paris, followed by his move to New York City to become one of the most powerful literary agents in the field. As agent to Jack Kerouac, Ken ... Leer más

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