Bob Smith, Author . Carroll & Graf $24.99 (376p) ISBN 978-0-78672-040-8
Standup comedian and television writer Smith, who published the Lambda Award–winning memoir Openly Bob
in 1997, throws his hat into the gay fiction ring with this absorbing, funny and smoldering romantic comedy. Nelson Kunker, a miserably...
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Bob Smith, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (272p) ISBN 978-0-688-15120-1
Most books by stand-up comedians consist of shtick, but the relentlessly quippy Smith--the first openly gay comic to appear on the Tonight Show--successfully crosses over into the comic essay. His autobiographical tales are engagingly tart: bringing
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Bob Smith, Author . Scribner $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-684-85269-0
In this intimate, inspiring account, Smith concludes that words and ideas possess the ability to heal and transform a life no matter how dire and painful the circumstances, using his own difficult childhood and productive adulthood as proof. Here,...
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Bob Smith, Author Rob Weisbach Books $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-688-16287-0
This second installment in gay comedian Bob Smith's autobiography (Openly Bob was published in 1997) features the occasional laugh-out-loud line and twinge of insight, but for the most part reads like a series of stand-up routines that never made it
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Bob Smith. Univ. of Wisconsin/Terrace, $26.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-299-28340-7
Comic book dealer John Sherkston has finally decides to break up with boyfriend Taylor Esgard after 20 years. However, he decides to do it the day that Taylor completes his masterwork—a functioning time machine, in writer/comedian Smith's (Selfish...
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