Humor for Grownups
Legal Humor
Arnold B.
Kanter
The best in humor about law firm life, from every point of view.
Via memos, speeches, and committee meetings, Arnold B. Kanter
introduces the mythically inept firm of Fairweather, Winters &
Sommers in The Handbook of
Law Firm Mismanagement
In Advanced Law Firm
Mismanagement, the firm's octogenarian founder, Stanley
Fairweather, shares his humorous reminiscences, along with such
wisdom as the lies to tell when associates leave.
In The Ins & Outs of
Law Firm Mismanagement, Kanter turns the book over to the
Fairweather firm's non-lawyers, who know better than anyone else
how ridiculous lawyers can be.
In Was That a Tax Lawyer Who
Just Flew Over? he lets lawyers see themselves from the
point of view of their clients and other outside non-lawyers,
everyone from the child of a two-lawyer couple to an accountant, a
judge, and a lion tamer.
And finally, The Handbook of Law
Firm Mismanagement for the 21st Century, the Fairweather
attorneys consider the advantages of merging and going virtual, as
well as bicker over a firm website and in front of a morning talk
show audience.
All books are illustrated with drawings by Paul Hoffman. $12.95
paper (except Handbook and Tax Lawyer, which are
$13.95, and 21st Century Handbook, which is $14), 200 pp.,
ISBN 0-945774-12-5, 20-6, 24-9, 31-1, 57-5. Some are also
available as e-books.
Other Legal Humor
TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS:
Appealing Legal Humor. Edited by Daniel R. White.
A handsome collection of the best in legal humor by some of our
best humorists — Mark Twain, Art Buchwald, Groucho Marx — as well
as such lawyer-humorists as William Prosser, Thurman Arnold, and
John Mortimer. Topped off with lots of cartoons.
$19.95 cloth, 320 pp., illustrated, ISBN 0-945774-05-2.
Other Humor For Grown-Ups
Jeffrey
Shaffer
I'M RIGHT HERE, FISH-CAKE,
with drawings by Paul Hoffman. Thurberian prose, lots of twists
and turns, and a wild but not quite woolly imagination combine
to make this Portland, Oregon writer's humorous tales fresh,
funny, and sometimes a little sad. If you're tired of
repetitive, predictable, and sophomoric humor, Shaffer is the
guy you've been looking for. "Mind candy that's actually good
for you, high in intellectual fiber but easy to digest." —Publishers
Weekly
$12.95 paper, 192 pp., illus., ISBN 0-945774-30-3.
Also available as an e-book.
IT CAME WITH THE
HOUSE, with drawings by Paul Hoffman. Shaffer's second
collection of on-the-wall stories. "In usually five to six
pages, Shaffer manages to build a credible though twisted world
where anything is possible, from investment-advising canines to
insurance adjusters in Godzilla's wake. . . . He makes writing
stories like this look easy-an incredibly difficult task." —Library
Journal
$13.95 paper, 192 pp., illustrated, ISBN
0-945774-36-2. Also available as an
e-book.
Robert
Wechsler
THE HUMORISTS' GUIDES. These four
volumes, edited by Catbird's publisher, collect stories,
memoirs, character sketches, descriptions, light verse, and
cartoons that will amuse anyone who travels. From irony to
nonsense and back again, you will find in these volumes all the
absurdities and delights of travel. You'll also find Mark Twain,
Robert Benchley, James Thurber, Emily Kimbrough, Al Hirschfeld,
and dozens more humorists and cartoonists. "A first-rate gift
for the traveler-to-be as well as for stay-at-homes." —New
York Times
IN A FOG: The Humorists'
Guide to ENGLAND
SAVOIR RIRE: The
Humorists' Guide to FRANCE
HERE WE ARE: The
Humorists' Guide to the UNITED STATES
Each book is $10.95 paper, except In a Fog,
which is $12.95. 200 pp., illustrated.
ISBN 0-945774-03-6, 00-1, 13-3, 01-X.
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