by Joan Rivers
First published 2012
Joan Rivers opens her notebook and lets loose. The comedian turns her sharp tongue on targets across American culture. She mocks people who treat childbirth like a personal achievement. She skewers boring former child stars who lack proper addictions. Rivers attacks First Ladies, closet cases, and hypocrites with equal venom. Hollywood gets her treatment, as do feminists and overrated figures from history. She saves some of her harshest words for herself. Rivers draws from decades in entertainment to fuel her rants. She holds nothing back in her assault on pretension and phoniness. This collection of her angriest observations celebrates the universal impulse to hate what annoys us most.
Genres: satire, humor, american, autobiography, comedy, 21st-century
Vibes: humorous, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: personal-journey, social-critique
Period: 21st-Century
242 pages · Hardcover · Berkley