A NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPRAmy Poehler, Mel Brooks, Adam McKay, George Saunders, Bill Hader, Patton Oswalt, and many more take us deep inside the mysterious world of comedy in this fascinating, laugh-out-loud-funny book. Packed with behind-the-scenes stories—from a day in the writers’ room at The Onion to why a sketch does or doesn’t make it onto Saturday Night Live to ho...

Interviews with David Sedaris, Dave Barry, Jack Handey, Bob Odenkirk, and other humor-writing pros: "Sure to captivate anyone who loves a good comedy." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)If you aspire to write sitcoms, standup, screenplays, or satirical essays—or are just a connoisseur of comedy—you should learn from the professionals. With interviews from twenty-one top humor writers whose credits include everything from Marx Brothers movies to Borat

"I Am Super Pumped! Let's Do This Shit!!!!!!!!!!!" is a collection of conversations between Mike Sacks and his PR guy to promote Sacks's 2022 book, PASSING ON THE RIGHT. A follow-up to the book PASSING ON THE RIGHT.

It's a ritual as time-honored among teenagers as prom or pretending to be sick to get out of changing for PE—glossy catalogs from colleges arriving by the dozen each spring. Aside from the faint odor of kiwi bubblegum vape smoke, Woodmont College's catalog, Welcome to Woodmont, is superficially not unlike the others. But there's no school quite like Woodmont College (no longer "university" due to a court order). And every page of this catalog is proof of this special uniqueness, w...

Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason collects Mike Sacks's unique humor pieces--craigslist ads, lesser-known tantric positions, letters to famous authors, lists, jokes, and the occasional illustration--into one handsome volume.Ever accidentally sent a mass e-mail to your office describing your Not Safe-For-Work fantasy kingdom? Or been confused about the ground rules at a cuddle party? Looking to rent an overpriced room in the Hamptons from a co-dependent sociopath w...

in Pink is the latest book from best-selling author Mike Sacks (And Here's the Kicker, Poking a Dead Frog, Stinker Lets Loose).Passable in Pink deftly sends up the 1980s and John Hughes movies while addressing the vital question: Will Addy Stevenson go to the senior prom?Addy is suffering through her sophomore year at suburban Chicago's Northridge High. She lives on the "wrong" side of the lake with her father, a struggling advertising copywriter ("Where t...

At long last ... the candid, shocking and previously untold story of Skippy "Batty" Battison, the universe's most radical, free-thinking, and honest comedian, comedy writer, satellite radio and podcasting star!Vulture's Best Books of 2022 (So Far!)Mike Sacks is a master of a particular type of writing that he probably invented or at least perfected - a dazzling, tricky act of written performance art, composing an entire manuscript from the point o...

Named One of Vulture's Top 5 Humor Books of the Year!The novelization to the 1992 Gen X movie "Slouchers"It is the early 1990s in Seattle ... and the MTV video for Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" has just premiered the previous week. Lethargy is in the air. Grunge fashion is all the logy rage. Something is brewing beneath these moist, overcast Seattle skies.Twenty-two-year-old Willow Montgomery has freshly arrived in town, having just graduated from an elite lib...

A gripping true tale of madness, technology, politics, and paranoia in Georgian England.Confined in Bedlam in 1797 as an incurable lunatic, James Tilly Matthews’s case is one of the most bizarre in the annals of psychiatry. He was the first person to insist that his mind was being controlled by a machine: the Air Loom, a terrifying secret weapon whose mesmeric rays and mysterious gases were brainwashing politicians and plunging Europe into revolution, terror and wa...

Each iconic Hellraiser Cenobite—Pinhead, Chatterer, Deep Throat, and Butterball—is given new life in this standalone comic collection featuring five brand-new stories set in the twisted world of New York Times bestselling author Clive Barker.No one truly dies in Hell. The Order of the Gash may have been brought low by young Kirsty Cotton, but they were not defeated.Enter a modern era of the Lament Configuration. In one story, a cold-hearted murdere...

It’s the first day back at Phoenix Academy High—but this year, there’s no back to school excitement in the air, as returning students and faculty are haunted by memories of last year's horrific attack. So many friends and colleagues were lost, and some of those who survived underwent changes—they IGNITED, gaining supernatural abilities they barely understand. Little do they know this is just the beginning…

Short stories by amazing science fiction authors: Mike Jack Stoumbos, Paige Vest, Rob Grimoire, Zac Sherman, Kevin David Anderson, David Horn, L.N. Hunter, Brian R O'Rourke, Craig Borri, J.M. Phillippe, Mike Davis, Mike Rusetsky, Jim O'Loughlin, Avram Lavinsky, Kari Kilgore, Matthew McKiernan, Effie Kaltirimidou, Daryl Rothman, Bruce Buchanan, and Billy Todd