Forward into Fall: Humor
Edited by Dick Donahue Compiled by Alia Akkam, Robert Dahlin, Charles Hix, Natalie Danford, Liz Hartman, Lauren Joyce, Hilary Kayle, Suzanne Mantell, Diane Patrick, Karole Riippa, Judith Rosen, Oona Short, Skip Skwarek, Julie Stevenson and Michelle Wildge -- Publishers Weekly, 8/6/2007
Basic Books
Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription: Notes & Asides from National Review (Nov., $23) by William F. Buckley Jr. compiles four decades of the author’s political wit. Ad/promo.
Black Dog & Leventhal
Boners: Seriously Misguided Facts—According to Schoolkids (Sept., $12.95) by Alexander Abingdon, illus. by Dr. Seuss. The 1931 New York Times bestseller is back in print, redesigned to showcase the art of the young Dr. Seuss. 50,000 first printing.
Borealis Books
The Dog Says How (Oct., $22.95) by Kevin Kling. The All Things Considered commentator captivates with tales of traveling the world and relying on the strangeness of others.
Cassell
(dist. by Sterling)
Don’t Go There: 101 Places to Avoid in Britain and Ireland (Jan., $9.95) by Julian L’Estrange lambastes locations from “the arse end of the world” to the “heaving Sodom of the south coast.”
Center Street
Coming Clean (Sept., $21.99) by Rodney Carrington with Bret Witter delivers a megadose of the humor that sells out the comic’s tours.
Da Capo Press
Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, a Parody (Oct., $22.95) by Fake Steve Jobs creates a comic riff on Silicon Valley culture by revealing daily details of the author’s life.
David R. Godine
The Superior Person’s Field Guide to Deceitful, Deceptive & Downright Dangerous Language (Oct., $16.95) by Peter Bowler, illus. by Leslie Cabarga, debunks trendy euphemisms and circumlocutions.
Gotham
A Practical Guide to Racism (Jan., $20) by Sam Means writing as C.H. Dalton dares to provide a hilariously offensive outlook on today’s multicultural world.
Grand Central Publishing
I Am America and So Can You (Oct., $25.99) by Stephen Colbert. The author’s plan to “re-ballify” America is underscored with illustrations, graphs, charts and a holiday DVD. Ad/promo.
Things I’ve Learned from Women Who’ve Dumped Me (Feb., $23.99), edited by Ben Karlin, intro. by Jon Stewart, presents an anthology of insightful stories by noted comedians, actors, politicians et al.
How Books
The Look Book (Sept., $17.99) by Chris Sickels employs 3D illustrations and dark wit in detailing the lives of two siblings who leave home to discover the world.
Little, Bbrown
Our Dumb World: The Onion’s Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition (Oct., $27.99) supplies incorrect statistics on all of the Earth’s 168, 182 or 196 nations; includes a fold-out world map “at actual size.”
Clarkson Potter
Cat Yoga: Fitness and Flexibility for the Modern Feline (Oct., $14.95) by Rick Tillotson. Sixty full-color photos of cats demonstrating the advanced positions will put lazy pussies on the road to feline nirvana.
Prion/Carlton
(dist. by Trafalgar Square)
How to Boil a Flamingo: And 49 Other Lessons in the Lost Art of Being a Lady (Oct., $14) by Allison Vale and Alison Rattle offers women witty advice on composure, manners, attire and decorum.
Running Press
The Marvel Vault (Oct., $49.95) by Roy Thomas and Peter Sanderson chronicles an insider’s view of Marvel Comics from 1939 to the present. 75,000 first printing.
The Completely MAD Don Martin (Nov., $150), foreword by Gary Larson, contains every piece of Martin’s art published in MAD during his 30-year tenure. 100,000 first printing.
Simon & Schuster
The Sweet Potato Queens’ Guide to Raising Children for Fun and Profit (Jan., $22.95) by Jill Conner Browne concocts a royal recipe for surviving the “joys” of motherhood.
Skyhorse
(dist. by Sterling)
The Single Girl’s Survival Guide: Secrets for Today’s Savvy, Sexy, and Independent Woman (Oct., $17.95) by Imogen Lloyd Webber. A sassy guide to work, mind, body, dating and sex.
Villard
Jeff Foxworthy’s Redneck Dictionary III: Learning to Talk More Gooder Fastly (Oct., $16.95) by Jeff Foxworthy. The third of the comic’s reference works is, says the publisher, “his crowning achievement in indigenous idiomatic ingenuity.”
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
(dist. by trafalgar square)
Richard Hammond’s Car Confidential: The Odd, the Mad, the Bad, and the Curious (Sept., $19.95) by Richard Hammond treats modern motoring with anecdotes and witty advice.
