Jessi Klein has excellent comedic credentials: she’s head writer and https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2016/06/25/summer-reads-amy-schumers-memoir-and-other-insights-into-notable-lives.html executive producer of END Inside Amy Schumer, and she’s worked as a writer for Transparent and Saturday Night Live. Her new book is a memoir in essays and it’s an excellent showcase for her self-deprecating, transgressive humour. Absolutely, Joanna LumleyNorth American audiences know Joanna Lumley for her Absolutely Fabulous alter ego, https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2016/07/21/absolutely-fabulous-the-movie-not-fabulous-but-still-fun-review.html Patsy Stone END . Lumley is now 70 and this nostalgic book will appeal to anyone who pines for the days when England swung like a pendulum. Now available in North America, it is an outstanding example of how far the art of cartooning has come and its potential for nuanced storytelling.

Source: thestar August 21, 2016 03:56 UTC