Gene Weingarten

GENE WEINGARTEN IS THE O. HENRY OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM Simply the best storyteller around, Weingarten describes the world as you think it is before revealing how it actually isin narratives that are by turns hilarious, heartwarming, and provocative, but always memorable. Millions of people know the title piece about violinist Joshua Bell, which originally began as a stunt: What would happen if you put a world-class musician outside a Washington, D.C., subway station to play for spare change? Would anyone even notice? The answer was no. Weingartens story went viral, becoming a widely referenced lesson about life lived too quickly. Other classic storiesthe one about The Great Zucchini, a wildly popular but personally flawed childrens entertainer; the search for the official Armpit of America; a profile of the typical American nonvoterall of them reveal as much about their readers as they do their subjects.

Is God male or female? Why do women, but not men, flush public toilets with their feet? Why are men, but not women, obsessed with parallel parking? Why do women, but not men, leave eleven-minute messages on answering machines? Why do men feel guilty about nothing, and women feel guilty about everything? Was Marilyn Monroe...fat? These philosophical quandaries, and more, are finally debated in Im with Stupid, an uproariously funny dialogue between Gene Weingarten, the gleefully misogynistic Washington Post humor columnist, and Gina Barreca, the gleefully feminist University of Connecticut professor. The first significant book about men and women actually written by a man and a woman, Im with Stupid is privy to the dark secrets of both sexes. Its not a lecture, but an extended argument, a combustion of viewpoints that winds up unearthing startling truths. In the words of Gene and Gina: "Our Mars and Venus breach their orbits and collide in a screaming fireball from Hell." The subject matter spans art and expression, science and technology, politics and history, spirituality and religion, sex and sexuality, as well as the complex etiology, sociology, and etymology of dirty jokes. Men: Learn at last how to know for sure when you are having a fight. Women: Learn what he really means when he says "Im sorry." Take sides as Gene and Gina face off in a haggling challenge in which the winner manages to get the lowest price for a Mercedes S500. Or just take in the show. Im with Stupid is the book that finally establishes, conclusively, that women are funnier than men. And vice versa.

When every hiccup sounds like the call of doom, each stomach pang hints at incipient cancer, and a headache means its time to firm up your last will and testament, The Hypochondriacs Guide to Life. And Death. provides just the relief you need. Gene Weingarten has spent his whole life immersed in the eclectic details of bizarre symptoms, self-diagnosing every minor ache as a potentially deadly disease. Weingarten examines:The mind of a hypochondriac How your doctor can kill you Ulcers and other visceral fears The snaps, crackles, and pops of your body that spell disaster Things that can take an eye out Interpreting DocSpeakBlending the neurotic anxieties of Woody Allen, the folksiness of Garrison Keillor, and the absurdist vision of Dave Barry, Gene Weingarten conjures up a hilarious prescription for the hypochondriac that lurks inside all of us.

Incluye toda la información que necesita el neurótico medio para volverse majareta. Por ejemplo: · Mírese los lóbulos de las orejas. ¿Presentan un surco? Se ha descubierto que las personas que tienen un pliegue que cruza los lobulos de las orejas, al menos hasta su mitad, padecen, o es probable que padezcan, enfermedad coronaria. · Meta la mano en el bolsillo o en su bolso. Busque una moneda. No la saque, solamente palpe su superficie con la punta de los dedos. ¿Puede distinguir la cara de la cruz? Si no puede, es que tiene un tumor en el cerebro o esta a punto de sufrir un ataque cerebral. · Con la palma de la mano hacia usted, golpee suavemente en el centro de la muñeca. ¿Siente un entumecimiento descendente por la mano? Si es asi, significa que padece el sindrome del tunel carpiano inicial. · Todo esto y muchas, muchas neurotizantes cosas mas, vera en Guia del hipocondriaco hacia la vida. Y la muerte; la muerte le acecha en cada pagina.

En este libro descubrirá los secretos más oscuros de ambos sexos y encontrará las respuestas definitivas a esos mitos y estereotipos que no han hecho más que confundir al sexo opuesto. Un libro divertido y esclarecedor sobre hombres y mujeres que logra establecer, de forma concluyente, que las mujeres son mas divertidas que los hombres. Y viciversa.

One of the 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 YearsSlateOn New Years Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That daychosen completely at randomturned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten spent the next six years proving that there is no such thing. That Sunday between Christmas and New Years turned out to be filled with comedy, tragedy, implausible irony, cosmic comeuppances, kindness, cruelty, heroism, cowardice, genius, idiocy, prejudice, selflessness, coincidence, and startling moments of human connection, along with evocative foreshadowing of momentous events yet to come. Lives were lost. Lives were saved. Lives were altered in overwhelming ways. Many of these events never made it into the news; they were private dramas in the lives of private people. They were utterly compelling. One Day asks and answers the question of whether there is even such a thing as ordinary when we are talking about how we all lurch and stumble our way through the daily, daunting challenge of being human.