Posts tagged as literature  Nick Offerman and Bo Burnham Both
Have New Books Out Today  It's a big day for comedy books, as
there are new ones out from Parks and Recreation's mustachioed
civil servant Nick Offerman and from comedian Bo Burnham, star
and co-creator of MTV's unjustly-canceled Zach Stone Is Gonna Be
Famous. It's the first book for each of the two authors.
Offerman's is a humorous self-help tome called Paddle Your Own
Canoe, while Burnham's is a book of poetry, writing, and
illustrations called Egghead Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas
Alone that's earned blurbs from Jack Handey, Conan O'Brien, and
Judd Apatow.  Mrs. Peniston and the Hilarious Vulgarity in Edith
Wharton's House of Mirth   Edith Wharton’s The [...]  2013
Thurber Prize Finalists Announced  Named after humorist James
Thurber (pictured), the Thurber Prize for American Humor is the
highest honor awarded for print humor writing, and the 2013
finalists were just announced. The 2013 finalists are Shalom
Auslander for his novel Hope: A Trage