This Is a Book [1st ed] 978-1-609-41876-2, 160941876X, 9781609418779, 1609418778, 9780446539708

Featuring narrative essays, short stories, and conceptual pieces (such as "Protagonists' hospital," where

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English Pages 268 Year 2011

This Is a Book [1st ed]
978-1-609-41876-2, 160941876X, 9781609418779, 1609418778, 9780446539708

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Demetri Martin

Table of contents :
Content: Announcements --
Hotline --
Megaphone --
Ideas & opinions --
Robot test --
Genie --
New Year's party --
How I felt --
Socrates's publicist --
Statistics --
Bee sting --
Who I am --
Bugle virtuoso --
Some drawings --
Dad --
Titles --
My band --
Palindromes for specific occasions --
Cat calendar --
Optimist, pessimist, contortionist --
We're pregnant --
Protagonists' hospital --
Rain --
Honors & awards (for which I would qualify) --
Better than sex --
Short stories --
Frustrating uses of etc. --
Charts & graphs --
My diet --
Fortune cookies --
A Christmas carol (the deleted scene) --
WED --
Fruit vendor (diary excerpts) --
Pets (a conversation) --
A cappella group freak accidents --
My checks --
A crossword puzzle --
Sheila --
Products --
A picture (1,000 words) --
Epigrams, fragments & light verse --
One phone call --
More drawings --
My powers --
Human cannonball occupational hazards --
Eulogy --
Flags --
Painted faces --
Some meanings --
Goreburg and Spatz --
Confessions of a white guy with dreadlocks --
Spanish teacher --
Zing! --
Results of your personality test --
More statistics --
Excerpts from my often-true autobiography --
The word awards --
Goodbyes.