LA NOVELA DEFINITIVA SOBRE EL STAND-UP COMEDYExconvicto, divorciado, crápula y en las últimas, Billy Ray Schafer es un cómico de micrófono abierto que viaja en coche solo en una gira por clubes de comedia del sudoeste de EE. UU. Antaño un monologuista de éxito, habitual de los late nights de David Letterman o Jay Leno, deambula de tugurio en tugurio para acabar las noches borracho y drogado hasta perder el sentido en alguna habitación de hotel de mala muert...

A collection of essays providing insights into new directions in rhetorical historyKathleen J. Turner’s 1998 multicontributor volume Doing Rhetorical History: Concepts and Cases quickly became a foundational text in the field, and the studies in the book have served as an important roadmap for scholars undertaking such scholarship. In the decades since its publication, developments in rhetorical-historical research, engaged scholarship, and academ...

Within the realm of American culture and its construction of its citizenry, geography, and ideology, who are southerners and who are queers, and what is the South and what is queerness? Queering the South on Screen addresses these questions by examining the intersections of queerness, regionalism, and identity depicted in film, television, and other visual media about the South during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Southern queers on screen often reflect the fant...

The Fishing Well is a tale about facing fears for readers of every age. Children and adults alike are empowered to think about their fears in a whole new way.Beautiful handcrafted illustrations highlight the layers of meaning each reader is invited to extract from a well, a bucket, and some fish. Facing our fears can be daunting and overwhelming but also confidence building and life changing.This story encourages each reader to shrink their fears into a whimsical place to s...