William Knowlton Zinsser, Author, Andrea Lee, Author, Ian Frazier, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-395-56336-6
These essays, which originated as a series of lectures at the New York Public Library, have been carefully edited by Zinsser ( On Writing Well ) so as to preserve the energy and liveliness of the writers' speech. Although the authors entertain with...
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Ian Frazier, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $22 (176p) ISBN 978-0-374-15520-9
All 17 of the angling pieces Frazier (On the Rez) has written over the last 20 years have now been preserved in one volume. Attentive readers of the New Yorker
over the last two decades will have caught most of these pieces before, but anglers and...
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Ian Frazier, Author , foreword by Jamaica Kincaid. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $22 (203p) ISBN 978-0-374-28163-2
Frazier (Great Plains
) chronicles his relationship with New York City in this collection of essays from the New Yorker
, the Atlantic
and elsewhere. Kincaid's foreword celebrates her friend's identification with Ohio, but despite the...
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Ian Frazier, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $22 (194p) ISBN 978-0-374-28162-5
Accomplished social satirist Frazier's latest collection reminds us why the novelist and essayist is one of America's funniest living writers. The much-quoted title piece, originally published in the Atlantic Monthly
, gives voice to every
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Ian Frazier, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $28 (544p) ISBN 978-0-374-27872-4
Drawn to what he calls "the incomplete grandiosity of Russia, Frazier's extraordinary work combines personal travelogue with in-depth history and gives readers a firsthand account of a place most will never see: Siberia. After 16 years of research,...
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Ian Frazier, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $14.95 (181p) ISBN 978-0-374-22310-6
Frazier (Dating Your Mom is a staff writer for the New Yorker; collected here are five of his articles that have appeared in the magazine since 1979. They are a masterly blend of detailed observation and subtle humor, perhaps best combined in the...
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Ian Frazier, Author Penguin Books $13.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-14-013170-3
Frazier, staff writer for the New Yorker and author of Dating Your Mom , here explores the Great Plains at random, seeking the past and embracing the present. According to PW , ``This is an engaging blend of travelogue, local color, geography and...
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Ian Frazier, Author Penguin Books $6.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-14-010603-9
""The work of a true listener and observer . . . Americana at its idiosyncratic best,'' PW wrote of these five New Yorker pieces. Frazier (Dating Your Mom) blends detailed reportage and subtle humor in essays on a household-hints columnist, Montana's
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Ian Frazier, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $17 (117p) ISBN 978-0-374-13033-6
Frazier's deadpan comic voice was once a staple for New Yorker readers. Two previous book collections resulted: Dating Your Mom (1986), an assembly of very short pieces, and Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody (1987), featuring longer essays and...
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Ian Frazier, Author Noonday Press $10 (128p) ISBN 978-0-374-52491-3
A collection of essays, which PW called ""awfully good, smart and wicked at the same time,"" from the New Yorker humorist. (May)
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Ian Frazier, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $25 (311p) ISBN 978-0-374-22638-1
When telling non-Indians that he was writing a book about the American Indian, Frazier (Great Plains, etc.) received a nearly unanimous reaction: that the subject sounds bleak. ""Oddly,"" he says, ""it is a word I never heard used by Indians...
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Ian Frazier. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $24 (240p) ISBN 978-0-374-13318-4
Bored and frustrated suburban housewife and mother Linda, aka the Cursing Mommy, curses every moment she's alive and has to put up with her life. Plagued with an unambitious and lazy husband who lives in his own world and doesn't help out in hers,...
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Ian Frazier. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (384p) ISBN 978-0-374-29852-4
New Yorker contributor Frazier (Travels in Siberia) presents a selection of varied, compelling articles dating from 2000 onward. Known for his keen wit (which does appear, to great effect), Frazier also grapples seriously with societal issues:...
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Ian Frazier, Author, Bruce Zick, Illustrator Westminster John Knox Press $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-664-22238-3
Many readers will already be familiar with Ian Frazier's hilarious treatise Lamentations of the Father, which has been forwarded countless times on e-mail. Now, Westminster John Knox Press releases an illustrated version of Frazier's commandments to
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Ian Frazier. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25 (192p) ISBN 978-0-374-60307-6
Longtime New Yorker contributor and humorist Frazier (Lamentations of the Father) bounces between the acerbic and the gently humorous in this uneven but fun collection of satiric miscellany. In “Once and Future Prince,” Frazier turns an anodyne ABC...
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