I Shudder

Name: I Shudder
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Paul Rudnick
ISBN: 9780061928727

Author: Paul Rudnick

Narrator: Paul Rudnick

Unabridged: 10 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Harper

Published: 09/15/2009

Categories: Nonfiction, Humor

Synopsis

I Shudder is a side-splittingly funny collection of essays from Paul Rudnick, one of America’s preeminent humorists. Rudnick, who writes for The New Yorker and has written the screenplays for the films In and Out, Sister Act, and Addams Family Values, shares his hilarious observations on life in New York City and New Jersey, the perils of show business, and dealing with one’s family, however crazy they may be. As David Sedaris says, “There’s no book wiser or half as funny as I Shudder.”

About Paul Rudnick

Playwright, screenwriter, and novelist Paul Rudnick's celebrated works include the plays I Hate Hamlet and Jeffrey, and the screenplays In & Out and Addams Family Values. He also writes regularly for The New Yorker. Born in Piscataway, New Jersey, he now lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lara

I don't quite know what to say about the book. I liked it, but didn't looooove it - but I'm hesitant to say that because I'm beginning to suspect that I simply don't "looooooove" any sort of memoir/collection of essays type of book, and I fear that my criticism is more one of genre than of the book......more

Goodreads review by Simon

Hilarious and occasionally bittersweet. If there is a funnier man than Rudnick writing, I haven't come across him. This collection of essays provides a sweet coda to I'll Take It, and there is an hysterical account of Rudnick's time as the script writer for Sister Act. By the time the movie was made......more