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Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour - by David Bianculli
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9781439101162
ISBN-10: 1439101167
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9781439101162
ISBN-10: 1439101167
Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend - by James S. Hirsch
Publisher:
Scribner
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/09/2010
ISBN-13: 9781416547907
ISBN-10: 1416547908
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/09/2010
ISBN-13: 9781416547907
ISBN-10: 1416547908
I Slept with Joey Ramone: A Family Memoir - by Mickey Leigh with Legs McNeil
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780743252164
ISBN-10: 0743252160
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780743252164
ISBN-10: 0743252160
I Am Ozzy - by Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayers
Publisher:
Grand Central
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/25/2010
ISBN-13: 9780446569897
ISBN-10: 0446569895
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/25/2010
ISBN-13: 9780446569897
ISBN-10: 0446569895
Shtick Lit
Technically, "shtick lit" refers to people who engage in an experience just so they can write about it. Some of the authors below fall into that category (A.J. Jacobs, for one); others started blogs that turned into books. Still others just fell into the writing process after embarking on their travels. But it's a crowd-pleasing form that was popularized by sportswriter George Plimpton's Paper Lion in 1966, and has most recently been embodied in Robyn Okrant's Living Oprah.
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing - by Ted Conover
Publisher:
Vintage Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/01/2001
ISBN-13: 9780375726620
ISBN-10: 0375726624
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/01/2001
ISBN-13: 9780375726620
ISBN-10: 0375726624
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible - by A.J. Jacobs
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/09/2007
ISBN-13: 9780743291477
ISBN-10: 0743291476
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/09/2007
ISBN-13: 9780743291477
ISBN-10: 0743291476
Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States - by Pete Jordan
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/2007
ISBN-13: 9780060896423
ISBN-10: 0060896426
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/2007
ISBN-13: 9780060896423
ISBN-10: 0060896426
Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously - by Julie Powell
Publisher:
Back Bay Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780316044271
ISBN-10: 031604427X
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780316044271
ISBN-10: 031604427X
Don't Eat this Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America - by Morgan Spurlock, Morgan
Publisher:
Berkley Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/02/2006
ISBN-13: 9780425210239
ISBN-10: 0425210235
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/02/2006
ISBN-13: 9780425210239
ISBN-10: 0425210235
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