Ted Peachum's father is famous for hibernating (I almost said "hibernating through the winter months," but Ted helpfully informs us that the word itself is seasonal, and that estivation is the term reserved for those who sleep through summer, so the distinction is unnecessary). Come November, he--w...
Comedy is not always funny, and tragedy can have elements of humor. DeVries gives us the coming of age/middle age story of a man who endures multiple tragedies with humor, all the while struggling to extract himself from the fundamentalist religion of his childhood. I came across this book in a ba...
Peter DeVries was a very popular writer who contributed many stories to the New Yorker in the fifties and sixties and who wrote several very funny novels. This autobiographical novel describes the growth to maturity of Don Wanderhope, member of a strictly Calvinist Dutch Reform family, whose brother...
In my search for humorous narrative, I ran across a listing of various authors who, supposedly, wrote humorous books. I could tell from my familiarity with some of the authors on the list that it was somewhat of a scattershot, but that came as no surprise--what people find funny differs as much as t...
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