Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the water in a vase of fresh cut flowers to fill the coffee machine. From armoring the windows with LP covers...

If you choose to wear unmatched shoes, can they still be a pair?

The widely popular, award-winning Chicago Public Radio show of the same name is now a Showtime show. Funny, dramatic, surprising, true, a new series of real-life stories. Drawing on a different theme each week, viewers hear compelling stories from everyday folks culled from six months on the road.

Just as Henry Huggins is complaining that nothing exciting ever happens, a friendly dog sits down beside him and looks pleadingly at his ice-cream cone. From that moment on, the two are inseparable. But when Ribsy's original owner appears, trying to reclaim his dog, Henry's faced with the possibility of losing his new best friend. Has Klickitat Street seen the last of rambunctious Ribsy?

When seventh-grader Jake McQuade mistakes the world's first ingestible knowledge pills for jelly beans, he suddenly knows all about physics and geometry and can speak Swahili (though Spanish would be a lot more useful)--but his sort-of girlfriend Grace thinks they can use his new found brilliance to save their middle school from the new principal, who is conspiring to get it shut down.

Various types of pasta have followed the rules since they were made but when the learn they are meant to be eaten, they plot how to escape the factory.

Max the cat attacks fish, curtains, socks, and strings, but how many things can he actually catch?