Live Your Most Humorous Life: New Nonfiction

Jason Gay is a sports columnist at the Wall Street Journal and the MVP of Super Bowl XLIX (this claim needs to be verified).  He has written for publications including Vogue, GQ, Rolling Stone and The New York Observer. Gay delivers a hilarious and heartfelt guide to modern living in Little Victories: Perfect Rules for Imperfect Living (Doubleday). According to Elizabeth Gilbert “Little Victories is funny, wise, direct, deceptively straight-forward and incredibly moving.”

Matthew Diffee has been contributing cartoons to The New Yorker since 1999. His work has also appeared in Time, the Huffington Post, the Believer and Texas Monthly magazines. He is the editor of three volumes of The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw and Never Will See in The New Yorker. He’s done illustration work for bands like the Punch Brothers and for a special collector’s edition of Stephen King’s novel “Under the Dome.” Last year Diffee received the Silver Reuben Award for best single panel cartoonist of the year and was recently named Chairman of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society. Hand Drawn Jokes for Smart Attractive People (Scribner) is a hilarious mix of cartoons, visual riffs, and illustrated one liners that will appeal to anyone who is beautiful and intelligent.

Sara Benincasa is a comedian and author of the books "Great" and "Agorafabulous!: Dispatches From My Bedroom (William Morrow Paperbacks). "Agorafabulous!" is based on her critically acclaimed solo show about of how a terrified young woman (her) evolved into a (relatively) high-functioning professional smartass. Her comedy has won praise from the Chicago Tribune, CNN, The Guardian, and the New York Times. Benincasa has a degree in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, N.C. She has an M.A. in Secondary School Education from Teachers College at Columbia University. She travels frequently to speak to college students about mental health awareness.    

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Terry Sweeney graduated from Middlebury College where he studied creative writing. He was a writer for Saturday Night Live. He also co-wrote the screenplay for the cult Southern film Shag, which was recently chosen by Garden and Gun magazine as one of The South’s Ten Greatest Films. Sweeney later joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in the 80’s, and made history as the first openly gay performer on American television. Sweeney’s first book of humorous essays, Irritable Bowels and The People Who Give You Them (Duke Street Press), examines a crazy world that could tie anyone’s bowels in a knot. From bullied gay kid of blue-collar bigots to successful film and television writer/performer, his showbiz horror stories will take you on a delightfully acid-tongued trip to Hollywood Hell and back; and ultimately to the heart of Dixie in the reddest state in the Union. This book is for anyone who's ever asked themselves can I walk.