Fraud Essays Author:David Rakoff From This American Life alum David Rakoff comes a hilarious collection that single-handedly raises self-deprecation to an art form. Whether impersonating Sigmund Freud in a department store window during the holidays, climbing an icy mountain in cheap loafers, or learning primitive survival skills in the wilds of New Jersey, Rakoff clearl... more »y demonstrates how he doesn’t belong -- nor does he try to. In his debut collection of essays, Rakoff uses his razor-sharp wit and snarky humor to deliver a barrage of damaging blows that, more often than not, land squarely on his own jaw -- hilariously satirizing the writer, not the subject. Joining the wry and the heartfelt, Fraud offers an object lesson in not taking life, or ourselves, too seriously.
In New England everyone calls you Dave --
Arise, ye wretched of the earth --
Lush life --
Before & after science --
Including one called Hell --
Lather, rinse, repeat --
Hidden people --
Extraordinary alien --
Best medicine --
Christmas Freud --
I'll take the low road --
We call it Australia --
Back to the Garden --
Tokyo story --
I used to bank here, but that was long, long ago« less