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Lamentations of the father, Ian Frazier

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non fiction

Lamentations of the father

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Ian Frazier

Ian Frazier is unquestionably one of America's greatest living humorists, a writer with a distinct, generous sensibility and a thousand different voices. His work is hilarious, elegant, and piercing, drawing on high and low culture to expose the warped line of thought running beneath our public selves. When The Atlantic Monthly published four humorists among the best writing ever to appear in the magazine, they chose essays by Mark Twain, James Thurber, Kurt Vonnegut, and Ian Frazier's "Lamentations of the Father." This collection, gathered from the past fourteen years of his career, once again proves him worthy of that great company

Kisses all around -- Laws concerning food and drink ; household principles ; lamentations of the father -- Tomorrow's bird -- Little house off the highway -- Th-th-that's not all, folks -- My wife Liz -- Walking tour -- The American persuasion -- Techno-thriller -- The cursing mommy cookbook -- Veni, vidi, vici, etc. -- Kidproof -- The not-so-public enemy -- Unbowed -- The new poetry -- Researchers say -- Warmer, warmer -- A cursing mommy Christmas -- Come back, suckers! -- From across the pond -- Everlasting -- Class notes -- Back in the U.S.A. -- He, the murderer -- No. Please, no -- If memory doesn't serve -- Kid court -- Here to tell you -- Chinese arithmetic -- Square one -- Pensees d'Automne -- Caught -- Thin enough -- Downpaging -- How to operate the shower curtain -- What I am