"The perfect Mother's Day gift: A collection of witty one-line advice New Yorker writer Patricia Marx heard from her mother, accompanied by full-color illustrations by New Yorker staff cartoonist Roz Chast.Every mother knows best, but New Yorker writer Patty Marx's knows better. Patty has never been able to shake her mother's one-line witticisms from her brain, so she's collected them into a book, accompanied by full color illustrations ..."
"Patricia Marx is one of the finest comic writers of her time, as readers of The New Yorker and fans of Saturday Night Live already know. Her fiction debut is an endlessly entertaining comic novel about one woman's romantic fixation on her first boyfriend. Marx's unabashedly neurotic heroine falls for philosopher Eugene Obello during her graduate school days in Cambridge, England. Why would anyone fall for a man who receives a grant to ..."
Home Colleging (Because You Have No Choice) द्वारा PatriciaMarx, Sarah Payne Stuart Paperback, 128 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2014 द्वारा Workman Publishing Company ISBN-13: 978-0-7611-5890-5, ISBN: 0-7611-5890-1
"Welcome to Lumpkin Home College! Why Lumpkin, you ask? Because, Bradley H. Lumpkin, you took Ceramics instead of Physics. Because "Pot Is My Passion" wasn't a smart topic for your college application essay. Because of that thing with the police. Because, honey, you have no choice.Home Colleging is the perfect book for any parent who has ever completed the grueling marathon of getting a child into college--and for every kid who survived ..."
Let's Be Less Stupid(Reprint) An Attempt to Maintain My Mental Faculties द्वारा PatriciaMarx Paperback, 208 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2016 द्वारा Twelve ISBN-13: 978-1-4555-5496-6, ISBN: 1-4555-5496-0
"Now in paperback: former SNL writer and The New Yorker staffer Patty Marx employs the weapon she wields best--not that weapon; Patty believes in gun control. Instead, she uses her sharp-edged humor to tackle the most difficult facet of aging: the mind's decline. From forgetting her brother-in-law's name while he was wearing a nametag to hanging up the phone to look for her phone, Marx confesses to her failures, and not only to make you ..."
"In "40% Off Is the New Black," best-selling authors Lisa Birnbach, Ann Hodgman, and Patricia Marx offer hundreds of recession-proof reasons why less is more. This funny, inspiring, and uplifting collection reminds us that most of the best things in life are still free. Insights include: * Hedges are prettier to look at than hedge funds. * Manicures are probably bad for you anyway--all those fumes. * Your pets wouldn't like you more if y ..."
Starting from Happy(Reprint) A Novel द्वारा PatriciaMarx Paperback, 256 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2012 द्वारा Scribner Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-0129-2, ISBN: 1-4391-0129-9
"While waiting in line for apple pie at a party, Imogene Gilfeather, a lingerie designer who does not understand the reason for romance, meets Wally Yez, a scientist whose business card says “An Answer for Everything.” Imogene is told that Wally is the perfect guy. (“Perfect,” she replies, “is not my type.”) He is told that her company, Featherware, manufactures intimates (that gets his attention). Unfazed by Imogene’s indifference (who ..."
"Grandma Moses was old. Methuselah was old. Bob Hope was old. But boomers getting gray hairs and wrinkles? It can't be! Aging has been a normal human condition since the dawn of humankind, but for the boundless boomer bulge hitting its thirties, forties, and fifties, giving aging angst a whole new meaning. In this hilarious book, well-known humor writers Lisa Birnbach, Ann Hodgman, Patricia Marx, and David Owen have brought together coun ..."
Starting from Happy (Hardback) द्वारा PatriciaMarx Hardcover, 256 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2011 द्वारा Scribner ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-0128-5, ISBN: 1-4391-0128-0
"On this particular night, how- Patricia Marx ever, Wally asked Imogene after
dinner if it would be okay with her if he left the ... party that night (old friends, free
whiskey, possible ride home) versus stay home (100 percent chance of
precipitation, Celtics vs. .... *In the Inuit edition of this book, endearingly entitled
Ukluk Learns to Dog Sled, Wally (Ukluk) clops into Imogene's ..... While you are
attempting to reckon with th ..."
"Finally...something to smile about!Love is not the only thing that blossoms with a smile. Your entire life can be transformed by the simple act of turning up the corners of your mouth. And psychologists have proven that you benefit by smiling-even when you're convinced you have nothing to smile about!Now the power of the smile gets a boost from three grinning fools: Lisa Birnbach, Ann Hodgman, and Patty Marx, the threesome who thought u ..."
"You live for Monday mornings. You go to the health club to get a stock tip on the Stairmaster. You dread the day in spring when clocks are set forward, robbing you of an hour. You think an ulcer is a badge of courage. You know who you are. You can't help yourself. You're a workaholic, and proud of it. Expanding on the kindly, humorous, self-effacing tone of their first collaboration, You Know You're a Grown Up When. . . . Jeanne Hanson ..."
"Former Saturday Night Live writers Patricia Marx and Douglas G. McGrath take aim at Hollywood in this wicked, satirical novel about the making of the flop of flops. Through the 1930s and 40s, X. Y. Schwerdloff brought us the best: the best comedies (Let’s Play Golf), the best dramas (Surprise Witness), the best musicals (Sing-a-ling), even the best World War II propaganda (Tokyo, Kansas). But by the 60s, the legendary Schwerdloff st ..."
Let's Be Less Stupid An Attempt to Maintain My Mental Faculties द्वारा PatriciaMarx, Patty Marx Hardcover, 208 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2015 द्वारा Twelve ISBN-13: 978-1-4555-5495-9, ISBN: 1-4555-5495-2
"Former SNL writer and The New Yorker staffer Patty Marx employs the weapon she wields best--not that weapon; Patty believes in gun control. Instead, she uses her sharp-edged humor to tackle the most difficult facet of aging: the mind's decline. From forgetting her brother-in-law's name while he was wearing a nametag to hanging up the phone to look for her phone, Marx confesses to her failures, and not only to make you feel better about ..."
Dot in Larryland The Big Little Book of an Odd-Sized Friendship द्वारा PatriciaMarx, Illustrator-Roz Chast Library, 40 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2008 द्वारा Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN-13: 978-1-59990-345-3, ISBN: 1-59990-345-8
"Tiny, lonely Dot sets out in search of a friend, while Extra-Large Larry is doing the same."
"* When you're sick in bed, she'll let you watch horrible soap operas and infomercials. * She's not offended when you pour ketchup all over the dinner she makes for you. * At the peak of your ugly phase, she still thinks you're cute. In delightfully droll bullet points and wacky boxed lists, this tribute to mothers everywhere provides a thousand--make that a thousand and three--reasons to acknowledge and appreciate that all-important fem ..."
Blockbuster (Bantam New Fiction) द्वारा PatriciaMarx, Douglas Mcgrath Paperback, 224 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 1988 द्वारा Bantam ISBN-13: 978-0-553-34498-1, ISBN: 0-553-34498-6
"Former Saturday Night Live writers Patricia Marx and Douglas G. McGrath take aim at Hollywood in this wicked, satirical novel about the making of the flop of flops. Through the 1930s and 40s, X. Y. Schwerdloff brought us the best: the best comedies (Let’s Play Golf), the best dramas (Surprise Witness), the best musicals (Sing-a-ling), even the best World War II propaganda (Tokyo, Kansas). But by the 60s, the legendary Schwerdloff st ..."
Him Her Him Again the End of Him (Paperback) द्वारा PatriciaMarx Paperback, 256 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2009 द्वारा Simon & Schuster Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-84739-212-1, ISBN: 1-84739-212-1
""1,003 Great Things About America" is full of the humor and hope, wit and wonder, that makes America so magnificent. Being American has always been a wonderful thing. But after September 11, 2001, patriotism soared. Not since the 1940s had America been attacked with such unexpected and horrible decisiveness. From sea to shining sea, the response was deafening. Americans raised their flags, raised their voices, and vowed to stand united. ..."
"What could be more fun than being the one male teacher in an all-girls school?
What could be more exciting than being the one female teacher in an all-boys
school? Now that we understand about dyslexia, we know that little 186 1003
Great ..."
"Good-bye Cruel World!Patty Jane Pepper is being unjustly punished. Her parents claim that she punched her brother Theodore. In fact, she only touched him--hard. And she didn't call him a dumbbell, either. She just called him a dumb head. Nonetheless, she's been sent to her room.So Patty Jane decides to punish her parents back. She'll stay in her room--forever. She'll stay up really, really, really late (so that when she goes to bed it w ..."