NASTYbook

Nice is Overrated.
"The perfect book for the budding Count Olaf or Sauron in your family... or for you." -- Neil Gaiman, author of Coraline
NASTY ('nas-te) adj. 1. Twisted. 2. Spitefully unfair. 3. Causing dangerous and severe laughter. SYNONYMS: Hilarious. Deliciously fun. Sample usage: "What a nasty, wicked book, filled with mayhem and mischief." "Only nasty criminals would kidnap a cuddly teddy bear!" "Monsters attacking 'cause a kid picks his nose? That's nasty." "A witch on the Internet, a superhero who farts? All nasty too!" ANTONYMS: Nice. Boring. Plain old ordinary.
Why can’t really cool parents dump their uncool offspring? Why can’t talented imaginary friends desert their boring creators? Why can’t pop stars be changed... into rodents?
Well, here they can! Barry Yourgrau’s NASTYbook is jam-packed with delightful wickedness for the kind of readers who can’t get enough of bad endings, rude twists, and assorted nasty mischief...(And don’t think we don’t know who you are.)

Children's Books

Yourgrau, Barry

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins

Nice is Overrated. "The perfect book for the budding Count Olaf or Sauron in your family... or for you." -- Neil Gaiman, author of Coraline NASTY ('nas-te) adj. 1. Twisted. 2. Spitefully unfair. 3. Causing dangerous and severe laughter. SYNONYMS: Hilarious. Deliciously fun. Sample usage: "What a nasty, wicked book, filled with mayhem and mischief." "Only nasty criminals would kidnap a cuddly teddy bear!" "Monsters attacking 'cause a kid picks his nose? That's nasty." "A witch on the Internet, a superhero who farts? All nasty too!" ANTONYMS: Nice. Boring. Plain old ordinary. Why can’t really cool parents dump their uncool offspring? Why can’t talented imaginary friends desert their boring creators? Why can’t pop stars be changed... into rodents? Well, here they can! Barry Yourgrau’s NASTYbook is jam-packed with delightful wickedness for the kind of readers who can’t get enough of bad endings, rude twists, and assorted nasty mischief... (And don’t think we don’t know who you are.)

Joanna Cotler

Why would criminals kidnap a cuddly teddy bear? Or monsters attack a kid for picking his nose? 'Cause Nice is overrated

When his mother gets kidnapped by goblins, Rollo is certain that all his years of reading comic books will finally serve its purpose as he heads off to face evil doctors, vicious toy poodles, and other curses and creatures during his dangerous quest to locate and free his mother.

Another NASTYbook: The Curse of the Tweeties

Ever tasted a NuttiNutz candy bar?   Has your Mom been kidnapped recently?   Know what a Samurai Swordboy is?   Are you afraid of terrible curses?   Or goblins?   Or Toy Poodles?   How ‘bout (gulp) older sisters??   Do fake false teeth ever talk to you?   Hey, then you better read this book . . . but Be Warned, friend. . . . It's not like anything you've ever read . . . unless you're completely demented! (Are you?)

Since the NASTYest things come in tiny packages, this delightfully twisted collection features super short stories, poems, dialogues, and one-sentence tales guaranteed to make readers laugh, shiver, and shudder.

Yet Another NASTYbook: MiniNasties

Yet Another Nastybook: Mininasties

Joanna Cotler Books

NASTY ( 'nas-te ) adj. 1. Twisted.2. Spitefully unfair.3. Causing dangerous and severe laughter. SYNONYMS: Hilarious. Deliciously fun. Sample usage: "What a nasty, wicked book, filled with mayhem and mischief." "Only nasty criminals would kidnap a cuddly teddy bear!" "Monsters attacking 'cause a kid picks his nose? That's nasty." "A witch on the Internet, a superhero who farts? All nasty too!" ANTONYMS: Nice. Boring. Plain old ordinary.

NASTYbook CD

HarperFestival

From the man The New York Times Book Review called "an uncommon diagnostician of the curiosities of the human heart" and hailed on NPR (National Public Radio) as "the stand-up comedian of the unconscious" comes this extraordinary new collction of metaphor-rich, wildly imaginative short-short stories. Barry Yourgrau, who performs his written work in clubs across the country and on NPR, Comedy Central, MTVs Spoken Word programs, and in an upcoming one-man feature film, now explores the imagination's twilight terrain in which love, lust, and loss reside in this achingly beautiful and rich surreal tour de force. An affair with a cannibal woman is filled with devouring kisses. A flower sprouts from a woman's flesh wherever a man kisses her, impeding their lovemaking. An abandoned lover seeks repair of the cuckoo clock that is his heart. Exploring the archetypal he-and-she from the first glance to the last tortured look, this exhilirating new collection of flash-fiction--short-short stories thematically connected--merges Freud with Fellini, Kafka with Woody Allen. At once sad, alarming, and wickedly brilliant, Barry Yourgrau is, in the uneasy land of desire and heartbreak, the spokesman for our secret self.

The Sadness of Sex

United States

Delta

Hilarious and poignant, a glimpse into the mind of someone who is both a sufferer from and an investigator of clutter.
Millions of Americans struggle with severe clutter and hoarding. New York writer and bohemian Barry Yourgrau is one of them. Behind the door of his Queens apartment, Yourgrau’s life is, quite literally, chaos. Confronted by his exasperated girlfriend, a globe-trotting food critic, he embarks on a heartfelt, wide-ranging, and too often uproarious project―part Larry David, part Janet Malcolm―to take control of his crammed, disorderly apartment and life, and to explore the wider world of collecting, clutter, and extreme hoarding.
Encounters with a professional declutterer, a Lacanian shrink, and Clutterers Anonymous―not to mention England’s most excessive hoarder―as well as explorations of the bewildering universe of new therapies and brain science, help Yourgrau navigate uncharted territory: clearing shelves, boxes, and bags; throwing out a nostalgic cracked pasta bowl; and sorting through a lifetime of messy relationships. Mess is the story of one man’s efforts to learn to let go, to clean up his space (physical and emotional), and to save his relationship.

Mess: One Man's Struggle to Clean Up His House and His Act

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Addiction & Recovery

W.W.Norton&Company

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NASTYbook

NASTYbook

NASTYbook

Another NASTYbook: The Curse of the Tweeties

Another NASTYbook: The Curse of the Tweeties

Yet Another NASTYbook: MiniNasties

Yet Another Nastybook: Mininasties

NASTYbook CD

The Sadness of Sex

Mess: One Man's Struggle to Clean Up His House and His Act