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Don't Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff
Category: Humour
David Rakoff's collection of autobiographical essays, Fraud, established him as one of America's funniest, most insightful writers. In Don't Get Too Comfortable, Rakoff journeys into the land of plenty that is contemporary North America. Rarely have greed, vanity, selfishness, and vapidity been so merci ...Show more
Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems by David Rakoff
Category: Culture
David Rakoff takes us on a bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess. Whether he is contrasting the elegance of one of the last flights of the supersonic Concorde with the good-times-and-chicken-wings populism of Hooters Air; working as a cabana boy at a South Beach hotel; or traveling to a pri ...Show more
Fraud by RAKOFF DAVID
Category: Biography
From "This American Life" alum David Rakoff comes a hilarious collection that single-handedly raises self-deprecation to an art form. Whether impersonating Sigmund Freud in a department store window during the holidays, climbing an icy mountain in cheap loafers, or learning primitive survival skills in ...Show more
Half Empty by David Rakoff
Category: Humour
In this deeply smart and sneakily poignant collection of essays, the bestselling author of "Fraud "and "Don't Get Too Comfortable" makes an inspired case for always assuming the worst--because then you'll never be disappointed. Whether he's taking on pop culture phenomena with Oscar Wilde-worthy wit or ...Show more
Half Empty by David Rakoff
Category: Languages and Reference
The inimitably witty David Rakoff, "New York Times "bestselling author of "Don't Get Too Comfortable," defends the commonsensical notion that you should always assume the worst, because you'll never be disappointed. In this deeply funny (and, no kidding, wise and poignant) book, Rakoff examines the rea ...Show more
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff
Category: Fiction
From the incomparable David Rakoff, a poignant, beautiful, witty, and wise novel in verse whose scope spans the twentieth century Through his books and his radio essays for NPR's This American Life, David Rakoff has built a deserved reputation as one of the finest and funniest essayists of our time. Wri ...Show more
Uncollected David Rakoff - Including the entire text of Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Anchor Books Original
Bestselling and Thurber Prize–winning humorist David Rakoff was one of the most original, delightfully acerbic voices of his generation. Here, in one place, is the best of his previously uncollected material—most never before published in book form. David Rakoff’s singular personality spills from every ...Show more
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