Staying Crazy To Keep From Going Insane

Cris Cohen

ISBN 10: 0983769001 / ISBN 13: 9780983769002

Verlag: Tyrannosaurus Max Press, LLC, 2011

178 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.41 inches. In Stock. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0983769001

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For six years, California native and author Cris Cohen entertained readers in and around Southern California with his wry and often hilarious takes on any number of everyday subjects. His humor columns ran in several newspapers. Staying Crazy To Keep From Going Insane is a compilation of his funniest columns from those days and the best new ones from his blog he has been writing since he and his family moved to Cary, NC, in 2008 – where he finally lives in a neighborhood in which no one has written a screenplay. Topics in the book range from weight loss (after his gut moved from “out of shape” to “second trimester”) and the weather (“I've eaten Jell-O molds that were less dense than the air out here”), to rustic restaurants (“which usually means you shouldn’t go there unarmed”) and his wife’s pregnancy (“While ultrasounds might be precise, there is a lot that they miss, like the ability to make your child look human.”). The book’s sarcastic title, “Staying Crazy to Keep From Going Insane,” bespeaks its wide-ranging topics. It’s also a phrase that the author, who claims he took up writing because he couldn’t afford mental health care, has used many times over the years when someone asks him, “How’s it going?” The book features a quirky cover illustration (a goldfish wearing a shark fin hat) by Raleigh, NC, artist Darla Yancho and an interior illustration that resulted from a contest he ran on the book’s website www.stayingcrazy.com. Endorsed by Pulitzer Prize-winning humor author Dave Barry, New Yorker cartoonist Drew Dernavich, and PEN/Faulkner winning novelist T.C. Boyle, Staying Crazy To Keep From Going Insane is laugh-out-loud funny. But its purpose is earnest: Proceeds will go to the Miracle League of the Triangle, the local franchise of a baseball league for kids with special needs. One of those kids is author Cris Cohen’s son, Max. "A fine book for a fine cause" - Dave Barry - Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist "Very funny stuff -- and your very strong voice shines through." - TC Boyle - PEN / Faulkner and PEN / Malamud Prize-winning author "“If Cris made a lasagna, it would probably be a funny lasagna,” Dernavich wrote in his endorsement. “If Cris made a chair, it would be a funny chair. Thankfully, he has decided to make a book instead, which I enjoyed reading along with a glass of the most hilarious Merlot. Keep it coming, Cris!” - Drew Dernavich - Cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine and winner of the National Cartoonists Society’s “Reuben Award” as the best gag cartoonist

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Staying Crazy To Keep From Going Insane
Verlag: Tyrannosaurus Max Press, LLC
Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
Einband: Paperback
Illustrator: Daryl Stephenson; Michelle Zerzanek; Marilyn Berg Cooper
Zustand: Brand New