Patricia Marx
1) Tired town
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"This is the story of Nellie Bee Nightly, who is not tired at all. And swears she never will be! The popcorn is too pooped to pop, and the nightstand is too tired to stand up straight and must lie down--but Nellie? Nope, she's wide awake, and not ready for bedtime AT ALL. Instead, she gives her goldfish a mustache and hangs her bed from the ceiling so that she can install a swimming pool in her room. Nellie, after all, went to sleep last night, and...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A neurotic young graduate student looking for distraction from her doomed thesis is inexplicably swept off her feet by a narcissistic philosophy professor. Former Saturday Night Live writer Patricia Marx brings us this addictively readable novel about one woman's comic obsession with her first boyfriend.
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The rules, guidelines, principles, precepts, decrees, no-no's, yes-yes's, and arbitrary judgments of Patty's mother."--Back cover.
A gift collection of witty one-liners by the New Yorker writer and first woman elected to the Harvard Lampoon celebrates the universal advice of her mother and is accompanied by full-color illustrations by a New Yorker staff cartoonist. Illustrations.
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"An illustrated collection of love and relationship advice from New Yorker writer Patricia Marx, with illustrations from New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. Everyone's heard the old advice for a healthy relationship: Never go to bed angry. Play hard to get. Sexual favors in exchange for cleaning up the cat vomit is a good and fair trade. Okay, not that last one. It's one of the tips in You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In Let's Be Less stupid, longtime New Yorker staffer and former SNL writer Patty Marx employs the weapon she wields best--razor-sharp humor--to tackle what is perhaps the most difficult facet of aging-the decline of the mind. From losing her keys to forgetting her sister-in-law's name, Marx has done it all, and somehow prevailed with friendships intact. Unrelentingly funny and unexpectedly candid, Let's Be Less Stupid speaks to women and men of a...
9) You can never go wrong by lying: and other solutions to the moral and social dilemnas of our time
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"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"--Amazon.com.