Calypso
by David Sedaris | 
Autobiography of a Fat Bride
by Laurie Notaro | 
Will Not Attend
by Adam Resnick | 
We Thought You Would Be Prettier
by Laurie Notaro | 
The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club
by Laurie Notaro | 
The Day I Turned Uncool
by Dan Zevin | 
I Love Everybody
by Laurie Notaro | 
Kick Me
by Paul Feig |
It Looked Different on the Model
by Laurie Notaro |
Medallion Status
by John Hodgman |
Everything's Trash, But It's Okay
by Phoebe Robinson | 
The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death
by Laurie Notaro | 
People Are Unappealing
by Sara Barron | 
You'll Grow Out of It
by Jessi Klein |
Notes from the Underwire
by Quinn Cummings |
Alice, Let's Eat
by Calvin Trillin | 
Travels with Alice
by Calvin Trillin | 
Feeding a Yen
by Calvin Trillin | 
Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff
by Calvin Trillin | 
Ex Libris
by Anne Fadiman |
Calvin Trillin begins his wise and charming ruminations on family by stating the sum total of his child-rearing advice: "Try to get one that doesn't spit up. Otherwise, you're on your own." Suspicious of any child-rearing theories beyond "Your children are either the center of your life or they're not," Trillin has clearly reveled in the role of family man. Acknowledging the special perils to the privacy of people living with a writer who occasionally remarks, "I hope you're not under the impression that what you just said was off the record," Trillin deals with the subject of family in a way that is loving, honest, and wildly funny in Family Man.