Winding Down Civilization

by Barry Parham

With his ninth collection of commentary, award-winning author and humor columnist Barry Parham continues his good-natured assault on society's odd little angles, toe-stubbing dead-ends, and cultural cul-de-sacs. For over seven years, this popular humorist has been delivering punchline after sucker-punchline via his weekly humor column, the diaTribe . Now, nearly half-a-million words later, Parham is back with another long-awaited bundle of barbs, lobbed observations, and as the author himself points out, "...not a fact in sight."

290 pages, Paperback

Published September 8, 2016

About the author

Barry Parham is the award-winning author of humor columns, essays and short stories. He is a recovering software freelancer and a music fanatic.

Parham is the author of the 2009 sleeper, "Why I Hate Straws," his debut collection of humor and satire including the prize-winning stories, 'Going Green, Seeing Red' & 'Driving Miss Conception.'

In October 2010, Parham published "Sorry, We Can't Use Funny," another award-winning collection of general-topic satire and humor, and the more targeted "Blush: Politics and other unnatural acts." He followed up in 2011 with "The Middle-Age of Aquarius," a growing-old-but-not-so-gracefully vehicle for the award-winners 'Comfortably Dumb,' 'Snowblind' and 'The Zodiac Buzz-Killer.'

"Full Frontal Stupidity" (2012), Parham's 5th collection of humor, satire and observations, features more award-winning stories, including 'Skirts vs. Skins' and 'Scenes From a Maul.' He followed up the next year with a brace of collections, "Chariots of Ire" and "You Gonna Finish That Dragon?" and most recently published his 8th compilation, "Maybe It's Just Me."

Parham's work has also been featured in three national humor anthologies:
"My Funny Valentine" (2011)
"Open Doors: Fractured Fairy Tales" (2012)
"My Funny Major Medical" (2012)