Ellis Weiner, illus. by Jeremy Holmes. Chronicle, $16.99 (232p) ISBN 978-0-8118-6679-8
This series kickoff takes a while to get going, and not just because it has three prologues and two Chapter Twos. Although 12-year-old twins Abigail and John Templeton headline the story, the most prominent character is the self-satisfied and...
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Ellis Weiner, Author . NAL $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-451-21117-0
In his satiric first novel, humorist Weiner (The Joy of Worry
) pokes fun at the private eye genre with mixed results. When Pete Ingalls comes to after being knocked unconscious by a pile of books in a Manhattan bookstore, he remembers only the hard-
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Ellis Weiner, Author . NAL $22.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-451-21396-9
Pete Ingalls, the PI throwback with the overdrive mind and tongue to match, takes on the sordid, violent world of puppetry in his second adventure with a Chandler-style title (after 2004's Drop Dead, My Lovely
). Weiner, a former National...
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Ellis Weiner, Author Dutton Books $17.95 (234p) ISBN 978-0-525-24531-5
With few exceptions, the 25 pieces here are mordantly, comically on target. There is also a running, subliminal story of writer ""Noah Vale''Weiner himself?coping with deadpan, deadhead editors, agents and TV persons. Weiner parodies writers (S. J....
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Ellis Weiner, Author, Roz Chast, Illustrator Chronicle Books $14.95 (149p) ISBN 978-0-8118-4139-9
""Worry is fear harnessed to imagination."" With this brilliant re-definition of an old bugaboo, Weiner begins this perfectly pitched spoof of the lifestyle how-to. The New Yorker and National Lampoon writer""has been apprehensive most of his life,""
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Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman, Plume, $17 paper (256p) ISBN 9780452296442
Successful humorists Weiner and Davilman (Yiddish with Dick and Jane) deliver a new volume in which they outline the basics of being "really Jewish." They explain that within American society, Jewish traditions are either vanishing or evolving into...
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Ellis Weiner, Author, Barbara Davilman, Author, Gabi Payn, Illustrator Little Brown and Company $14.95 (104p) ISBN 978-0-316-15972-2
Dick and Jane are all grown up, and they're living in the real world-and it's full of tsuris (troubles). That's the premise of this hilarious little book, which functions both as a humorous tale and a genuine guide to a language with a sentiment and
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