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HardCover Pub Date: November 2005 Pages: 228 in Publisher: penguin In the great tradition of the American almanac The Areas of the My Expertise is for a illiant and hilarious compendium of handy reference tables. Fascinating trivia. and sage wisdom on all topics large and small. Although bestsellers such as Poor Richardas Almanack and The Book of Lists were certainly valuable. they also were largely true. Here is a different kind of handy desk reference. one in which all of the historical oddities and amazing true facts are sifted through the singular. illuminating imagination of John Hodgmanawhich is the nice way of saying: He made it all up.John Hodgman ings his considerable expertise to bear in answering all of the questions book buyers have been asking:-What are the mottoes of the 51 United StatesTHE ANSWER IS PROVIDED-Who were the US presidents who had hooks for handsTH...
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"Wonderfully absurd."
--The New York Times
"Hilarious . . . Nabokov's Pale Fire as directed by Wes Anderson."
--Time Out New York
"If Borges and Ben Franklin got drunk and decided to write a book together, the result might have been something a lot like this freaky 'almanac'."
--Tom Perrotta
"Even if you buy this book for the 700 hobo names alone, you will have gotten more than your money's worth."
--Dave Eggers
"A book of absurd tall tales, tables and charts spun from the warped brain of John Hodgman . . . Impressively eclectic."
--The Los Angeles Times
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--The New York Times
"Hilarious . . . Nabokov's Pale Fire as directed by Wes Anderson."
--Time Out New York
"If Borges and Ben Franklin got drunk and decided to write a book together, the result might have been something a lot like this freaky 'almanac'."
--Tom Perrotta
"Even if you buy this book for the 700 hobo names alone, you will have gotten more than your money's worth."
--Dave Eggers
"A book of absurd tall tales, tables and charts spun from the warped brain of John Hodgman . . . Impressively eclectic."
--The Los Angeles Times
John Hodgman lives in New York City, where he curates and hosts “The Little Gray Book Lectures,” a monthly colloquium of readings, songs, and dubious scholarship. He is a contributing writer atThe New York Times Magazine and a frequent voice on public radio’s This American Life. Further fiction, nonfiction, and genres in between have appeared inThe Paris Review, McSweeney’s, One-Story, and The Believer. He has performed at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, as well as on the great stages of Chicago, Philadelphia, and London’s Barbican.
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- PublisherE P Dutton
- Publication date2005
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- ISBN 13 9780525949084
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