Roz Chast
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Pub. Date
2014.
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"In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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"Ancient Greeks, modern seers, Freud, Jung, neurologists, poets, artists, shamans-humanity has never ceased trying to decipher one of the strangest unexplained phenomena we all experience: dreaming. Now, in her new book, Roz Chast illustrates her own dream world, a place that is sometimes creepy but always hilarious, accompanied by an illustrated tour through (3z(BDream-Theory Land(3y(B guided by insights from poets, philosophers, and psychoanalysts...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
169 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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"For native Brooklynite Roz Chast, adjusting to life in the suburbs (where people own trees!?) was surreal. But she recognized that for her kids, the reverse was true. On trips into town, they would marvel at the strange world of Manhattan: its gum-wad-dotted sidewalks, honey-combed streets, and 'those West Side Story-things' (fire escapes). Their wonder inspired 'Going into Town,' part playful guide, part New York stories, and part love letter to...
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The iconic and irresistible cartoonists join up to talk about their new books: Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, a graphic memoir by Chast, and Kill My Mother, a noir graphic novel by Feiffer. In conversation with New Yorker art editor Françoise Mouly. Presented in association with Strand Bookstore.
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Roz Chast brings her brilliant, hilarious artwork to No Fair! No Fair! and Other Jolly Poems of Childhood by Calvin Trillin and The African Svelte: Ingenious Misspellings That Make Surprising Sense by Daniel Menaker, as well as her own memoir Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?. Join us for a conversation moderated by Adam Gopnik (The New Yorker) between the artist and authors, plus readings by Jane Curtin and Reg Rogers (The Knick).
Author
Publisher
Flying Dolphin Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 x 27 cm.
Description
Presents a rhyming couplet featuring each letter of the alphabet, with such characters as David the dog-faced boy, who dons a derby despite being dirty, and Victor, whose frequent victories have made him vainglorious.
10) Dot in Larryland
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Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Macmillan
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
Tiny, lonely Dot sets out in search of a friend, while Extra-Large Larry is doing the same.
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Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
81 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Description
Here, New Yorker writer Marx collects her mother's sparkling witticisms, as exemplified by the title. New Yorker staff cartoonist Chast, National Book Critics Circle Award winner for her immortally funny and insightful Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, contributes her genius as illustrator.
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Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
160 pages cm
Description
"The perfect Valentine's Day or anniversary gift: 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...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
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"During his time at The New Yorker, Daniel Menaker happened across a superb spelling mistake: “The zebras were grazing on the African svelte." Fascinated by the idea of unintentionally meaningful spelling errors, he began to see that these gaffes?neither typos nor auto-corrects?are sometimes more interesting than their straight-laced counterparts. Through examples he has collected over the course of his decades-long career as an editor and writer,...
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What do women want? Eternal happiness and eternal youth would be nice. Failing that, what about a good laugh? Like I Feel Bad About My Neck come to life on the page, When Do They Serve the Wine? explores the evolution of women through their lives and crises (physical, emotional, sartorial): the awkward teen years; the crisis of becoming a quarter-lifer; the unmistakable realization that if you're wearing a certain outfit in your forties, you might...
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The first children's poetry collection by award-winning writer Calvin Trillin -- illustrated by acclaimed illustrator Roz Chast!
Get ready to laugh out loud with Calvin Trillin's first collection of poems for children (and nearby grown-ups). Enjoy the whimsical cartoon illustrations by New York Times bestselling illustrator Roz Chast as you find out if Justin is "the awfulest kid in the class," if there's anything that Matt won't eat, and if you...