Free-Range Chickens by Simon Rich

Free-Range Chickens by Simon Rich

After a riotous debut collection, Ant Farm, Simon Rich returns to mine more comedy from our hopelessly terrifying world. In the nostalgic opening chapter, Rich recalls his fear of the Tooth Fairy (Is there a face fairy?) and his initial reaction to the Got-your-nose game (Please just kill me. Better to die than to live the rest of my life as a monster). He gets inside the heads of two firehouse Dalmatians who can't understand their masters' compulsion to drive off to horrible fires every day (What the hell is wrong with these people?). And in the final chapter, he tackles one of life's biggest questions: Does God really have a plan for us? Yes, it turns out. Now if only He could remember what it was. . . .

Carole Rich is a retired journalism professor who was the Atwood professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage before accepting a full-time position. She also worked for 16 years in the newspaper industry and served as chair of the journalism department at Hofstra University in New York for two years. She also taught journalism at the University of Kansas for 11 years. She worked as a reporter for the former PHILADELPHIA EVENING BULLETIN, the SUN-SENTINEL in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and the HARTFORD COURANT in Connecticut. Professor Rich has led many writing seminars for media groups, including a group of professional journalists in Spain, in addition to working as a visiting writing coach at newspapers around the United States. She is the author of a number of well-known media and reporting textbooks.

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ISBN 13	9781400065899
ISBN 10	1400065895
Title	Free-Range Chickens
Author	Simon Rich
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House (NY)
Year published	2008-08-26
Number of pages	129
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