Fast Funny Women: 75 Essays of Flash Nonfiction
Author | : Gina Barreca |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9781949116212 |
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Author | : Gina Barreca |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9781949116212 |
Author | : Gina Barreca |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-09-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781954907782 |
Fast Fallen Women includes 75 previously unpublished pieces on the topic of the ways in which women fall-- whether they reach the boundaries of their lives and take flight, whether they stumble, or are pushed over the edge. Holding a compact mirror up to life, given that all the essays are under 750 words, the book bears witness to women's resilience, creativity, and wit as women write about rising up against all odds. With new and original works by Amy Tan, Jane Smiley, Bobbie Ann Mason, Caroline Leavitt, Darien Hsu Gee, Honor Moore, and Lynn Peril, as well as a dazzling range of emerging authors writing from diverse perspectives, ages 20-92, Fast Fallen Women gives whispered conversations a full voice.
Author | : Gina Barreca |
Publisher | : Flash Nonfiction |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2022-03 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9781954907003 |
Praise for Fast Funny Women edited by Gina Barreca "If you're a woman and you like humor in your life--plus intelligence--get this book." --Nancy Thayer, author of Family Reunion "Every man should read this book." --Jay Heinrichs, author of Thank You for Arguing With fierce new works from writers you know by heart--NYT bestselling novelist Caroline Leavitt, NPR's own Maureen Corrigan, award-winning poet Phillis Levin, stand-up comic Leighann Lord, Founder and Director of the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Teri Rizvi, playwright Beth Blatt, screenwriter Pamela Katz, activist and author Leslie Morgan Steiner, Rabbi Marisa Elana James, Pastor Jamie Spriggs, activist and teacher Ebony Murphy-Root--alongside other familiar and emerging authors whose original pieces were commissioned, Fast Fierce Women exemplifies how strength, focus, passion, wit, resilience, rage, loyalty, talent, and love are all aspects of ferocity.
Author | : Gina Barrraca |
Publisher | : Woodhall Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2021-03-02 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9781949116205 |
FAST FUNNY WOMEN is a broad collection: 75 women writers, ages 20 to 89, were invited by editor Gina Barreca to make a party out of their life's most unnerving, challenging, illuminating, desperate, and hilarious moments. Political campaigners, devoted teachers, lousy daughters, good mothers, would-be nuns, admired sportswriters, grad-school-wanna-bes, revenge-driven sisters, frustrated roommates, body-fluid-sorting professionals, lace-loving fashion mavens, intrepid daters, hungry lovers, justice-seeking nasty-women, ACE wedding celebrants, trapped wives, and women with all kinds of ammunition tell their stories-- and their stories are all under 750 words. You know many of these brilliant women, but you've never heard them like this: with new works commissioned for the book from NYT Bestseller and member of the American Academy of Poets, Marge Piercy, Pulitzer-Prize winner Jane Smiley, NYT bestseller graphic artist Mimi Pond, New Yorker staff cartoonist Liza Donnelly, Commander of the British Empire Fay Weldon, bestselling author of "Love, Loss, and What I Wore" Ilene Beckerman, "Sylvia" creator Nicole Hollander, stand-up comics Lisa Landry and Leighann Lord, filmmakers Ferne Pear
Author | : Gina Barreca |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Griffin |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010-06-08 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9780312547271 |
In a world where eye cream is made from placenta, Gina Barreca is the lone voice calling out "But wait, whose placenta is it?" In this collection of deliciously quotable essays, Gina asks the big questions: Why is there no King Charming? Why does no bra ever fit? Why do people say "cougar" like it's a bad thing? Why do we call it a glass ceiling when it's just a thick layer of men? Barreca packs a hilarious punch while gleefully rejecting emotional torture, embracing limitless laughter, and showing women how they can conquer the world with good friends ("It's not that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but a girl's best friends are diamonds"), sharp wit, great shoes, and not a single worry about VPLs.
Author | : Gina Barreca |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2016-03-29 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1250060745 |
Gina Barreca is back and she's telling women to lean in, be loud and be funny!
Author | : Stephen King |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2014-12 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : 9781627152846 |
Author | : Regina Barreca |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9780814321362 |
In Untamed and Unabashed, Regina Barreca, noted authority on women and humor, examines the use of humor in the works of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark, and Fay Weldon. She analyzes the ways that each writer uses comedic devices, especially those involving language itself, and discusses the gendered basis of their humor, providing a provocative feminist perspective on gender and comedy. Each of the essays argues that conservative critics have misread and misunderstood the importance of humor in the works of these women authors, and that women's humor serves to explode conventions oppressive to women and to offer women readers a critique of, and an alternative perspective on, the dominant cultural ideologies that contain and oppress them. The book concludes that these authors strategically deployed humor, coded in forms that women readers-but not men readers-would recognize and understand, as a means of educating and empowering those women readers. Barreca asserts that much of women's comic play has to do with power and its systematic misappropriation, allowing women to gain perspective by ridiculing the implicit insanities of a patriarchal culture. Using detailed persuasive new readings of various works of each of her chosen authors, she shows how the straightjacket of conventional femininity is challenged, confronted, and finally, thrown off. This volume demonstrates that comedy can effectively channel anger and rebellion by first making them appear to be acceptable and temporary phenomena, and then by harnessing the released energies, rather than dispersing them. This kind of comedy, which is at the heart of Untamed and Unabashed, terrifies those who hold order dear. It should.
Author | : Brian Doyle |
Publisher | : Woodhall Press Llp |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780997543742 |
Dinty W. Moore (brevitymag.com) and Tom Hazuka (Flash Fiction Funny, 2013) present 71 stories that will make you laugh out loud in 750 words or less! Flash Nonfiction Funny explores the exploding form of very short creative writing in this accessible anthology. Perfect for individual entertainment or writing courses. It's funny because it's true!
Author | : Keith Richards |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2010-11-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0316178721 |
The long-awaited autobiography of Keith Richards, guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll life. Now, at last, the man himself tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane. Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. The Rolling Stones's first fame and the notorious drug busts that led to his enduring image as an outlaw folk hero. Creating immortal riffs like the ones in "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women." His relationship with Anita Pallenberg and the death of Brian Jones. Tax exile in France, wildfire tours of the U.S., isolation and addiction. Falling in love with Patti Hansen. Estrangement from Jagger and subsequent reconciliation. Marriage, family, solo albums and Xpensive Winos, and the road that goes on forever. With his trademark disarming honesty, Keith Richard brings us the story of a life we have all longed to know more of, unfettered, fearless, and true.