Merrill Markoe, Author . Villard $21.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-375-50712-0
Who can say, with a straight face, that every birthday they've ever experienced has been the perfect occasion, with every wish granted and all dreams fulfilled? Certainly not Markoe's nameless single Anywoman, who begins journaling her...
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Merrill Markoe, Author . Villard $22.95 (270p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6483-0
Markoe (It's My F—ing Birthday
) delivers a light-on-its-paws account of dog-lover Dawn Tarnauer's canine-led quest for love. Twice-divorced Dawn is the product of a fantastically dysfunctional family (Dawn's sister, Halley, is an...
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Merrill Markoe, Author . Villard $24 (305p) ISBN 978-0-345-50020-5
Jimmy, the canine star of Merrill's second fun-loving doggie novel (after Walking in Circles Before Lying Down
), is the Tony Robbins of the dog world and holds informal seminars with the neighborhood dogs to instruct them in the art of...
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Merrill Markoe, Author Penguin Books $8.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-14-023369-8
Markoe's spoof of self-help guides takes cliche-ridden advice and applies it in off-the-wall ways. (Nov.)
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Merrill Markoe, Author Viking Books $18.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-670-85332-8
In a wonderfully funny ``how-to'' satire on achieving happiness, humorist Markoe (What the Dogs Have Taught Me) skewers everything from cliche-ridden self-improvement classes to beauty salons that promise to transform their clients into ``genetically
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Merrill Markoe, Author Penguin Books $10 (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-016682-8
These humorous essays are the literary equivalent of snack food: they're not always substantial but they're difficult to put down and quickly devoured. Author tour. (May)
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Merrill Markoe, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $21 (288p) ISBN 978-0-87113-663-3
Partly a spoof on guides to romantic relationships, Markoe's look at love and sex in the 1990s is often tiresome, sometimes wickedly funny and occasionally hilarious. Roughly one-third of the 21 selections appeared in New Woman. Writing with a keen...
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Merrill Markoe. Villard, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-345-51891-0
Though her last two novels were canine-centric, comedy writer Markoe (Nose Down, Eyes Up) primarily branches out to the human world in this witty, affecting collection of personal essays though her own pack of four dogs does make regular, usually...
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Merrill Markoe, Author, Andy Prieboy, Author . Villard $24.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6076-4
In this collaborative effort, the authors explore the anxiety of personal interaction versus the safety of e-mailing and the dubious trustworthiness of cyber friendships. With her characteristic sharp-witted angst, former David Letterman writer,...
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Merrill Markoe, Author, Eric Brace, Author, Eric Brace, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-85344-1
Markoe, an Emmy Award winner for her writing on Late Night with David Letterman, makes a very droll children's book debut. Carey, the protagonist, has three loyal but aggravating canines who drool at mealtimes and bark uselessly at squirrels. ""I...
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Merrill Markoe. Algonquin, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-61620-903-2
Comedian Markoe (What the Dogs Have Taught Me) spins a spiky coming-of-age memoir combining commentary, comics, and diary excerpts in a scrapbook fashion. Markoe’s girlhood journal begins in 1958 when her bankrupted father moves the family to Miami.
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