Download or read book Comedy Book written by Jesse David Fox and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Most Anticipated Book by Vulture, Elle, Chicago Tribune, The Millions, and Lit Hub "Comedy Book changes the way we talk about an art form that is more diverse and exciting than ever before.” —Seth Meyers "A sharp, loving, well written exploration and analysis of the art form that makes us smile, helps us relate, and is perpetually mysterious." —Jenny Slate From a beloved comedy critic, a wisecracking, heartfelt, and overdue chronicle of comedy’s boom—and its magic. Comedy is king. From multimillion-dollar TV specials to sold-out stand-up shows and TikTok stardom, comedy has never been more popular, democratized, or influential. Comedians have become organizing forces across culture—as trusted as politicians and as fawned-over as celebrities—yet comedy as an art form has gone under-considered throughout its history, even as it has ascended as a cultural force. In Comedy Book, Jesse David Fox—the country’s most definitive voice in comedy criticism and someone who, in his own words, “enjoys comedy maybe more than anyone on this planet"—tackles everything you need to know about comedy. Weaving together history and analysis, Fox unravels the genre’s political legacy through an ode to Jon Stewart, interrogates the divide between highbrow and lowbrow via Adam Sandler, and unpacks how marginalized comics create spaces for their communities. Along the way, Fox covers everything from comedy in the age of political correctness and Will Smith’s slap to the right wing’s relationship with comedy and, for Fox, comedy’s ability to heal personal tragedy. With memorable cameos from Jerry Seinfeld, Dave Chappelle, John Mulaney, Ali Wong, Kate Berlant, and countless others, Comedy Book is an eye-opening education in how to engage with our most omnipresent art form, a riotous history of American pop culture, and a love letter to laughter.
Download or read book Riding Shotgun written by Racquel Williams and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do to hold on to the good life? Would you let your man lie and cheat on you? Would you turn your head when the truth is hitting you dead in the face? Akila Jones had a rough childhood growing up in one of Richmond’s grimiest projects. She learned early on that she had to boss up, go in savage mode, and take care of herself by any means necessary. Things are starting to look up for her when she falls for Mari, a well-known hitta from Virginia Beach. Little does she know she is destined for all the drama that comes with dating a dude with money. She’ll learn fast that good sex and playing the good girl are not enough to keep her wild lover under control. Mari is young, rich, and arrogant. His messed-up mentality toward females only makes it worse when he snatches up this young girl who is desperate for a better life. His ignorant behavior makes him oblivious to the fact that danger is on the way, and his life is about to turn upside down in the blink of an eye. Take a rocky ride with this couple who are toxic for each other but continue to play this dangerous game of love, lies, and betrayal.
Download or read book Dice written by T.N. Baker and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Indecent Proposal" meets the streets in this explosive new novel from the #1"Essence" bestselling author of "Sheisty" and "Still Sheisty." 75,000print.
Download or read book Raw written by Lamont "U-God" Hawkins and published by Picador. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected as a Best Book of the Year by Esquire "Couldn't put it down." –Charlamagne Tha God "Mesmerizing." –Raekwon da Chef "Insightful, moving, necessary." –Shea Serrano "Cathartic." –The New Yorker "A classic." –The Washington Post The explosive, never-before-told story behind the historic rise of the Wu-Tang Clan, as told by one of its founding members, Lamont "U-God" Hawkins. “It’s time to write down not only my legacy, but the story of nine dirt-bomb street thugs who took our everyday life—scrappin’ and hustlin’and tryin’ to survive in the urban jungle of New York City—and turned that into something bigger than we could possibly imagine, something that took us out of the projects for good, which was the only thing we all wanted in the first place.” —Lamont "U-God" Hawkins The Wu-Tang Clan are considered hip-hop royalty. Remarkably, none of the founding members have told their story—until now. Here, for the first time, the quiet one speaks. Lamont “U-God” Hawkins was born in Brownsville, New York, in 1970. Raised by a single mother and forced to reckon with the hostile conditions of project life, U-God learned from an early age how to survive. And surviving in New York City in the 1970s and 1980s was no easy task—especially as a young black boy living in some of the city’s most ignored and destitute districts. But, along the way, he met and befriended those who would eventually form the Clan’s core: RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Inspectah Deck, Ghostface Killah, and Masta Killa. Brought up by the streets, and bonding over their love of hip-hop, they sought to pursue the impossible: music as their ticket out of the ghetto. U-God’s unforgettable first-person account of his journey, from the streets of Brooklyn to some of the biggest stages around the world, is not only thoroughly affecting, unfiltered, and explosive but also captures, in vivid detail, the making of one of the greatest acts in American music history.
Download or read book What s Up Dawg written by K. C. Baker and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2004-01-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you need to know to make it big and take it all the way to the top, from the Grammy Award-winning producer, songwriter, musician, record exec, and American Idol judge. So you wanna be a superstar? You want the fans? The glitz? The glamour? The money? The bling? American Idol judge Randy Jackson has been the man behind the star-making machine for the past 25 years, producing, recording, managing and performing with the biggest names in the music industry, including *NSYNC, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Elton John,Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Destiny's Child, Bon Jovi and Journey, among many others. If anybody knows the music biz, it's Randy. Now for the first time, Randy reveals his secrets -- and those of the industry's top experts -- to making it big in the music industry. With his cool, hip, straightforward style, he's going to break it all down for you in layman's terms. He's going to help you find your musical style and how it can mean the difference between scoring a record deal--or going nowhere. He'll give you the 411 on how to land gigs, network with the industry's power players, make a blazing hot demo and snag the all-important record deal -- all while staying true to yourself. So if you think you have what it takes to be the next Beyonce, Justin Timberlake or 50 Cent, or even the next American Idol, read What's Up, Dawg and let's see if you got What's up!
Download or read book Inseparable written by Lance J. Kendrick and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shawn Cook thought all was well five years ago when he took down the criminal organization. Out of the ashes of destruction emerges an unexpected adversary determined to get revenge by destroying the very essence of what means more to Shawn than anything in the world—his wife, Serenity Cook. Shawn took out the mastermind five years ago, but now, it is time for revenge. Shawn has a certain amount of time to save the love of his life before her life is destroyed. Can Shawn reach Serenity in time in order to save her? Find out in this nail-biting, page-turning suspense action thriller.
Download or read book Weedopedia written by Will B High and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's more to marijuana than smoking it. And in this one-stop, one-stoke resource, you'll learn it all. With more than 800 entries covering everything from Afghan Kush to Zombieland, this awesome collection of all things cannabis is packed with information and illustrations every stoner should know, including: Why the subtle flavor of bubbleberry makes it a rich pothead's drug of choice How to properly make a bong out of a coconut for maximum highness How high you should be to watch a Jack Black movie The real way to get stoned at festivals like the Hash Bash Why Barack Obama and Michael Phelps are really role models It's the reference no stoner should be without! This book gives you what you need to know to be at the head of the class--at least while you're passing around a joint.
Download or read book Truth Pain Starring the Gangsters Retards In the Mystique Cal Person A of MC Cripple Crip written by DC. Curtis and published by Truth & Pain, LLC. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The corner of Truth Avenue and Pain Street is Valley City's butt crack part of town. Eight teenagers, the Gangsters & Retards, live there: Moon, a blind and deaf girl who practices aikido; Carlos, a Mexican-American rapper in a lowrider wheelchair; Bryan, a basketball loving boy with Down syndrome; Mad Girl, a pregnant fourteen-year-old Latina with major anger issues; Pho, a humongous Vietnamese skateboarder/tagger; Janice, a Jewish-American princess with leg braces and crutches; Dutch, a less than smart white boy wigger; and Learoy, a totally hot sixteen-year-old African-American girl. In this episode, convinced his failed attempts at breaking into the hip hop music scene are due to his Hispanic ethnicity, Carlos pretends he's black to catch a music label's attention. But when a record exec appears with a contract, Carlos obviously doesn't have the right skin color, and in the wink of an eye his falsified identity slips away from him. The absurd world of Valley City serves as the backdrop as Carlos plays a cat and mouse game to regain both his persona and the seven friends swept into the mess he creates. Cartoon realism misadventures ensue as this humorous novel of love, lies, power, corruption, and everyday existence makes you laugh and cry while possibly offending your sensibilities.
Download or read book If I Should Die Tonight written by Eyes . . . Jb and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At age twelve, Lucinda is the mother of a one-year-old half white/black baby after being brutally raped. After Ray Shawn is born; he constantly hears and sees sights and sounds of racism, hatred and insults directed at him and his mother. When their lives are threatened and all hell breaks loose because three "good ole boys" are about to stand trial for attacking Lucinda; baby girls only option is to take little Ray, and jet from the warm conditions of their small hometown to avoid the murderous claws of a mob made up of a few of Alabama's most racists. She must also avoid the blood dripping branches of Jim Crow's "hang a nigger" tree. Ten years later in a housing project near Boston, Lucinda is murdered and little Ray becomes a hustler at age fifteen at the height of the AIDS epidemic. As he watches his boys being taken out by the disease, he realizes that he's about to become a statistic also, but he develops a desire while in prison to eventually tell their stories. After becoming a follower of Louis Farrakhan while doing an eight year stretch, he no longer carries within him the hate and revenge that had overtaken his mind, body and soul for whites. And his desire to take out white men and continue to hustled white women as revenge for his mother's death had all but vanished by the time he's released He's now on a mission to clean up his community and save his young brothers and sisters, and to keep them from following in his path as a street hustler whose only mission was to degrade women and destroy their integrity.
Download or read book Her Love Saves Him The Streets Made Him 2 written by Sharifa D. and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost losing her life and then taking the life of Detective Torres had flipped Hailee’s world upside down, and the only thing keeping her grounded was Dionne. Hailee feels like a fugitive on the run, not being able to go back to the only place she calls home. With her best friend possibly dead or laying in a hospital bed, she doesn’t know if her world will ever be the same. Dionne is her savior; without him she doesn’t know where she would be. He continues to save her time and time again and now a possible murder suspect, will he be able to save her from this? There is only one person Dionne can trust, and that is Hailee. The warning signs of betrayal are everywhere, and the shady actions of the two people closest to him have Dionne on edge. In the past few months, from meeting Hailee to losing one of his closest friends and hardest workers, Dionne’s world was a mess. On a plane headed back to Montego Bay looking at the love of his life, he knows the next few weeks will change him forever. With some of the hardest obstacles they have ever had to face, Hailee and Dionne know they need each other. The treachery of friends and foes has brought them closer together as the path they are about to take is a dangerous one. As new allies emerge and old hidden enemies come to light, their future is unknown. Their love would be the only thing to save them as the streets, friends, and enemies try to destroy them.
Download or read book Code of the Hood written by Alfred Blue Flowers and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carlton was a thugged-out hustler that headed a mob of youngsters known as BDP (Boston Damn Projects) Crew. They were small time hustlers but notorious nonetheless and involved in everything from robbery, extortion, drugs, and murders. All the petty hustling stopped when Carlton hooked up with the largest cocaine dealer on the East Coast. Carlton had two problems: he was getting high on his own supply, and there was a rival drug dealer and vicious killer named Carlos (Dawg) who reigned over his crew of killers out of Piedmont Circle Projects. Latrice, who is Carltons lady, was innocent and unfamiliar to the life of hustlers out of the hood. She had been raised by her grandmother with Christian upbringing and was well educated and spiritually grounded. She enjoyed the money, gifts, and luxuries that came with being Carltons lady, but she had no street knowledge and was naive to the game. She was not mentally or physically strong enough to handle the chaos that was about to change her life forever. The Code of the Hood takes place in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and is full of drama, suspense, and excitement.
Download or read book Some Sing Some Cry written by Ntozake Shange and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundbreaking and heartbreaking, this triumphant novel by two of America's most acclaimed storytellers follows a family of women from enslavement to the dawn of the twenty-first century. From Reconstruction to both world wars, from the Harlem Renaissance to Vietnam, from spirituals and arias to torch songs and the blues, Some Sing, Some Cry brings to life the monumental story of one American family's journey from slavery into freedom, from country into city, from the past to the future, bright and blazing ahead. Real-life sisters, Ntozake Shange, award-winning author of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf and Ifa Bayeza, award-winning playwright of The Ballad of Emmett Till, achieve nothing less than a modern classic in this story of seven generations of women, and the men and music in their lives. Opening dramatically at a sprawling plantation just off the South Carolina coast, recently emancipated slave Bette Mayfield quickly says her goodbyes before fleeing for Charleston with her granddaughter, Eudora, in tow. She and Eudora carve out lives for themselves in the bustling port city as seamstress and fortune-teller. Eudora marries, the Mayfield lines grows and becomes an incredibly strong, musically gifted family, a family that is led, protected, and inspired by its women. Some Sing, Some Cry chronicles their astonishing passage through the watershed events of American history.
Download or read book The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come written by John and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is Fox's beautiful story of love and change in behaviours. The story revolves around the Tolliver and Falin families who had been in a conflict with one another since ages. The story starts when life in the mountains is beginning to change...coal mining is starting to boom and the oustide world is penetrating into the simple ways of mountain life. Appealing!
Download or read book The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come written by John Fox and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bungalow on the Roof written by Achmed Abdullah and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) wrote more than 170 books. During the first ten years of her career, she concentrated on poetry, humor, and children's books. From 1910 onward, she concentrated on mysteries, most famously the Fleming Stone Detective Stories.
Download or read book Stages written by Christopher D. Burns and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stages: A Handbook on Men and Relationships There are four stages men go through before settling down with one woman, according to Terrence Matthews. If a man hasn't encountered each stage he will never be ready for marriage. Terrence relays his Stages theory to the reader as he tells of his own movement through these phases.
Download or read book Young Lionz written by C.J. Hudson and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghetto girls birth 'em. Hood rats love 'em. Society fears 'em. Police target 'em. And the penitentiary welcomes 'em. From the coochie to the casket, this troublemaking band of misfits wreaks havoc on the community. They are loyal to no one but themselves, and not even death can scare them. They are untamed, untrained, and worst of all, unchained. They run through the city with reckless abandon and perform unspeakable acts of random terror on innocent, law-abiding citizens. They are the definition of troublemakers. They are Young Lionz. Antwan, the ringleader, is a twenty-year-old malcontent with big dreams and small money. Ever the optimist, Antwan won't stop reaching for the moon until he's touched the stars. Temp, his fiery, quick-tempered partner can't seem to keep it in his pants, and because of it, the majority of his money goes toward paying for abortions. Bishop is the only member of the crew to be employed on any level, albeit part time. He likes being part of the crew but is becoming increasingly tired of some of their antics. When a tragic turn of events leaves him holding a smoking gun, his loyalty to his crew is severely tested. Niko has his own set of problems. Hanging out with his comrades provides him with his fortress of solitude, far away from the pain of his abusive mother. Chris is the quiet one of the crew. He doesn't say much, but he's always down to put in work. Guard ya grills...the Young Lionz are on the loose.
