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Life's a Stitch: The Best of Contemporary Women's Humor
The Best of Contemporary Women's Humor is an anthology with a humorous short stories, poetry, songs, and cartoons--all from the pens of women, and all donated to benefit charities. It will entertain readers, sustain them, and provide hours of reading pleasure.
The gems here treat topics such as politics, relationships, parents, hair, dieting, and aging with wry irreverence. It features humor from some of the most well-known women writers Wendy Wasserstein, Delia Ephron, Anna Quindlen, Kathy Najimy, Gloria Steinem, Christine Lavin, and many others. Inside cover illustration and chapter openers by Flash Rosenberg.
And all this funny business is for three good The royalties and a percentage of the proceeds will be donated to The American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR), the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO).
The gems here treat topics such as politics, relationships, parents, hair, dieting, and aging with wry irreverence. It features humor from some of the most well-known women writers Wendy Wasserstein, Delia Ephron, Anna Quindlen, Kathy Najimy, Gloria Steinem, Christine Lavin, and many others. Inside cover illustration and chapter openers by Flash Rosenberg.
And all this funny business is for three good The royalties and a percentage of the proceeds will be donated to The American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR), the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO).
336 pages, Paperback
First published August 5, 1997
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May 25, 2020
Inspiring Women Writers Tickle us Pink!
I've always loved Erma Bombeck. (my mom was a fan in the 70s so as a teen, I saw her book stacks on the end table and devoured them too. Her humorous style inadvertently seeped into my own like osmosis. ) So when I was stocking up for a long flight in 2005, I saw "Life's a Stitch" in a book store. It's packed to the seams with comedic bits, flash fiction and longer pieces, comic sketches, and cartoon panels. My favorite comic strip, For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston, even makes a few appearances!
How fun revisiting Bombeck's work again as well as the other women's clever contributions. I wish we were bombarded by Erma --it's a shame we lost her too soon--but it's fun to dabble and discover different authors and comedy writers like Kathy Najimy, Yeardley Smith, Judith Viorst, Marta Kauffman and a plethora of others.
I especially liked "The Montana Nine," by Christine Lavin, (Lavin has several pieces in this) about a wise, elderly group of friends on a Girls Trip she meets during a gig at a hotel, and the chapter, "The Estrogen Files," which contains the side-splitting bit, "Rosebud," by Jane Read Martin. Genius punch line! Be careful what you and your friend dish about while getting a Pedi. The Asian nail ladies are a hilarious echo during the convo.
This book is an inspiration as a woman writer and as a humor fan, it's so fun to have on my shelf. Seven years later, I moved and forgot I had "Life's Stitch" and joyfully rediscovered this hidden treasure while unpacking. I read it cover- to- cover, as the first time I only read selective stories that piqued my interest. Now, here it is seven years later once more, and I just joined a women's writer's Facebook group. Suddenly this book flashed into my mind, so I'm diving in again.
I've always loved Erma Bombeck. (my mom was a fan in the 70s so as a teen, I saw her book stacks on the end table and devoured them too. Her humorous style inadvertently seeped into my own like osmosis. ) So when I was stocking up for a long flight in 2005, I saw "Life's a Stitch" in a book store. It's packed to the seams with comedic bits, flash fiction and longer pieces, comic sketches, and cartoon panels. My favorite comic strip, For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston, even makes a few appearances!
How fun revisiting Bombeck's work again as well as the other women's clever contributions. I wish we were bombarded by Erma --it's a shame we lost her too soon--but it's fun to dabble and discover different authors and comedy writers like Kathy Najimy, Yeardley Smith, Judith Viorst, Marta Kauffman and a plethora of others.
I especially liked "The Montana Nine," by Christine Lavin, (Lavin has several pieces in this) about a wise, elderly group of friends on a Girls Trip she meets during a gig at a hotel, and the chapter, "The Estrogen Files," which contains the side-splitting bit, "Rosebud," by Jane Read Martin. Genius punch line! Be careful what you and your friend dish about while getting a Pedi. The Asian nail ladies are a hilarious echo during the convo.
This book is an inspiration as a woman writer and as a humor fan, it's so fun to have on my shelf. Seven years later, I moved and forgot I had "Life's Stitch" and joyfully rediscovered this hidden treasure while unpacking. I read it cover- to- cover, as the first time I only read selective stories that piqued my interest. Now, here it is seven years later once more, and I just joined a women's writer's Facebook group. Suddenly this book flashed into my mind, so I'm diving in again.
February 14, 2018
I didn't find the stories or cartoons all that humorous. Too many of them were just bitter or whiny. I guess my humor isn't the type that's in this book.
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