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Gayle Tufts beobachtet mit scharfem Blick und schreibt mit viel Humor und Verstand nicht nur über ihr Leben als Amerikanerin in Deutschland, sondern auch über ihre alte Heimat - über Alltag und Absonderlichkeiten im Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten. Hochaktuell und mit den besten Stücken aus ihrem neuen Bühnenprogramm.

God Is Disappointed in You is for people who would like to read the Bible...if it would just cut to the chase. Stripped of its arcane language and interminable passages, every book of the Bible is condensed down to its core message, in no more than a few pages each. Written by Mark Russell with cartoons by New Yorker cartoonist Shannon Wheeler, God Is Disappointed in You is a frequently hilarious, often shocking, but always accurate retelling of the Bible, including the parts selectively left out by Sunday School teachers.

Despite the title, Dickens's portrayal of early industrial society is less relentlessly grim than that in novels by contemporaries such as Elizabeth Gaskell or Charles Kingsley. Hard Times weaves the tale of Thomas Gradgrind, a hard-headed politician who raises his children Louisa and Tom without love and to have no empathy, their lives completely devoid of beauty, culture, or imagination. Only after a series of crises does their father realise that the manner in which he raised his children has ruined their lives.

Set in the world of the Victorian professional and landed classes, the story centres on Mr Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in possession of an income from a charity far in excess of the sum devoted to it.

Samaritans Medical Center, Washington, DC, can't seem to look after itself and its increasingly desperate doctors, let alone its patients. The chairman of the board, billionaire arms dealer and part-time philanthropist David Soper, decides that it's time to kill or cure. Business school alumnus and Las Vegas hotel genius Max Green is the perfect man for the job. A man of vision. A man with a mission. A man who knows that wealth care is smarter than health care. He's going to make Samaritans great again.

They love nothing better than sipping free-trade gourmet coffee, leafing through the Sunday New York Times, and listening to David Sedaris on NPR (ideally all at the same time). Apple products, indie music, food co-ops, and vintage T-shirts make them weak in the knees. They believe they're unique, yet somehow they're all exactly the same.

Echoing a narrative line that includes Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller, William Giraldi’s Busy Monsters has been hailed as one of the most exciting fiction debuts in years. Penned with a linguistic bravado that explores the diaphanous line between fiction and fact, this "very funny, very inventive dbut novel" ( The New Yorker) has at last revived the great American picaresque tradition.

Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul's rebellion is vintage Vonnegut – wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.

Called “our finest black-humorist” by The Atlantic Monthly, Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Now his first and last works come together for the first time in print, in a collection aptly titled after his famous phrase, We Are What We Pretend To Be.

A Signature Performance: Four-time Emmy Award winner David Hyde Pierce delivers an air of lovable self-importance in his rendition of the classic social satire that remains as fresh today as the day it was published.

Tutto comincia al largo di Bali, con una mongolfiera e quattro bottiglie di champagne. Allan Karlsson si appresta a festeggiare il suo centunesimo compleanno con il fidato complice Julius, quando è costretto a un ammaraggio d'emergenza nel mezzo dell'oceano. Salvati da una nave nordcoreana che trasporta clandestinamente uranio per conto di Kim Jong-un, i due vengono fermati con l'accusa di spionaggio. Dopo lo sbarco, Allan si finge uno specialista di tecnologia nucleare per riuscire a fuggire con una valigetta dal contenuto esplosivo.

Credevamo di poter dimenticare tutto quello che abbiamo vissuto come cittadini italiani? Michele Serra si adopera perché nessuno debba, perché nessuno possa dimenticare cosa ci ha portato sin qui. Di quando Berlusconi regalò alla regina d'Inghilterra un reggiseno di pizzo, pregandola di indossarlo in sua presenza. Di quando venne finalmente chiarito che "cariche dello stato" non si riferiva agli esplosivi usati durante la prima Repubblica. E di quando il PD diede in affido i suoi elettori a chi garantiva di trattarli con umanità.

A Roma, nei dintorni del 1968, la rivoluzione ha il brivido di febbraio, la faccia di Mao e le note di Bandiera rossa eseguita da Claudio Villa. Gli insorti locali hanno intanto conquistato una rinomata trattoria del circondario, "L'Antico Girarrosto", dunque anche Velletri sta per capitolare. Peccato, proprio lì stava per aprirsi il banchetto di nozze di Serena e Canio, ragazzi di quartiere, appassionati di Drupi. Tra gli invitati, accanto a papà Stelvio, anche una maga di "sapienza etnisca" e Athanor, dobermann di provata lede neofascista, amatissimo dalla sposina.

"Qui da noi, da sempre, c'è un'abitudine radicata profondamente nella nostra cultura: non si dice mai la verità, soprattutto quando si parla di sé. La frase 'Vede, io sono un uomo fondamentalmente buono' va così tradotta: 'Io sono una carogna, ho subìto troppe umiliazioni nella vita, sono capace di scrivere lettere anonime, delazioni e, spesso, ho pagato degli iettatori professionisti per nuocere ai miei amici più cari'." L'audiolibro inedito di un maestro dell'umorismo italiano, uno scanzonato e spietato ritratto dei vizi e delle supposte virtù italiche.

Un gentile, cioè un non ebreo, domanda a un ebreo: "Perché voi ebrei rispondete sempre a una domanda con una domanda?" E l'ebreo: "E perché no?" Perché questa storiella per me è estremamente importante? Perché muove una questione centrale nell'ebraismo: la domanda. La domanda è una delle basi che sostengono la cultura e il pensiero ebraici. Essere umano è colui che sa porre domande, non chi dà risposte. Perché chi pone domande apre alla produzione di senso, apre al futuro, dà alle generazioni a venire la possibilità di intervenire, di esistere.

On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation's annual lecture is to be given by Dr Norman Wilfred, the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He turns out to be young and charming - not at all the intimidating figure they had been expecting. The Foundation's guests are soon eating out of his hand. So is Nikki, the attractive organiser. Meanwhile, in a remote villa at the other end of the island, Nikki's old friend Georgie waits for the man she rashly agreed to go on holiday with.

Partiendo desde la idea de que todo es inciatico, Alejandro Jodorowsky nos presenta un libro interpretativo que si bien podría ser de los sueños, se acerca al lenguaje coloquial de los chistes desde un punto de vista filosófico zen. Los chistes nos muestran una satirización de la realidad, una manera de ver a lo cotidiano como algo tan absurdo y real, algo que le podría suceder hasta al más proclive de los seres sin encontrar un razón o un sentido más que algo que paso.

Perhaps the most autobiographical (and deliberately least disciplined) of Vonnegut's novels, Slapstick (1976) is in the form of a broken family odyssey and is surely a demonstration of its eponymous title. The story centers on brother and sister twins, children of Wilbur Swain, who are in sympathetic and (possibly) telepathic communication and who represent Vonnegut's relationship with his own sister who died young of cancer almost two decades before the book's publication.

Many full moons ago, a young American boy with ambition in his belly and the moon in his veins followed his destiny west, determined to carve a path to success no matter the carnage. Two centuries later, a city is captivated by the strange and savage murder of a young woman. Her roommate, Natasha, no longer able to afford their apartment alone—and hounded by both rumors of wolves and a pop-star’s angry fan-swarm—has resorted to living in her car. There’s nothing left for her ... except vengeance.

Lucas will nichts als seine Ruhe in einer Welt, die ihn einfach nicht in Ruhe lässt. Eine Kurzgeschichte vom internationalen Bestsellerautor Fredrik Backman Videospiele, Wein und Pad Thai – das ist der perfekte Abend für Lucas. Andere Menschen? Muss nicht sein. Warum denn, wenn er auch alleine glücklich sein kann? Als der dreiköpfige Vorstand der Bewohnervertretung überraschend an seiner Tür klingelt und eine Inspektion seiner Bratpfanne verlangt, ist Lucas alles andere als begeistert. Doch Abwimmeln ist nicht.