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Evan Mandery
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in Brooklyn, New York, The United States
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Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, Nelson Burton Jr.
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February 2010
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Michael Ferro's review
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First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think:
"Hilarious, intelligent, and wildly thought-provoking, FIRST CONTACT is a classic of our modern times, and much more timely than perhaps even it knew it was back when it was released in 2010. Like the harbinger of a coming orange doom with tiny han..."
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"Q is one of those books with the unfortunate side effect that when you are done, you find yourself wandering forlornly around Amazon lamenting the fact that the author doesn't have at least a dozen more books for you to read right away (only 2 oth..."
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Mike Davies's review
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First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think (Parrot Sketch Excluded):
"Channelling Vonnegut, Mandery uses absurdism to illustrate life and to mock those who take everything so damn seriously. "
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"Laugh out loud funny. Mandery writes like a mash-up of Christopher Buckley and Kurt Vonnegut, droll wit mixed with plain (but funny) insights into the human (and not so human) condition.
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A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America
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“Give up on trying to be original. Every song has been sung, every picture has been painted, and every story has been told. The best one can do is sing, draw, or tell it again well.”
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“it has been my experience with literary critics and academics in this country that clarity looks a lot like laziness and ignorance and childishness and cheapness to them.”
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“Give up on trying to be original. Every song has been sung, every picture has been painted, and every story has been told. The best one can do is sing, draw, or tell it again well.”
― Q
― Q
“I have no special desire to go crawl around in caves, but I really like the word [spelunking] and want to use it in conversation. I do a lot of things just to use words I like.”
― First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think
― First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think
“I also believe, without any supporting evidence, that cats are evil.”
― First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think
― First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think
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June/July 2012: Book Club Nominations
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| Crazy Challenge C...: Fall 2012 Seasonal Scavenger Challenge | 172 | 155 | Dec 29, 2012 06:36PM | |
| Crazy Challenge C...: A-Z Location Challenge 2012 | 197 | 183 | Oct 31, 2013 01:24PM | |
| Crazy Challenge C...: Zodiac challenge | 717 | 247 | Nov 04, 2013 05:52PM | |
| Crazy Challenge C...: A-Z Book Titles - 2014 | 320 | 198 | Dec 14, 2015 01:43PM | |
| Crazy Challenge C...: A-Z Book Covers, 2014 | 185 | 167 | Mar 28, 2016 05:02PM |
“I also believe, without any supporting evidence, that cats are evil.”
― First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think
― First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think
“I have no special desire to go crawl around in caves, but I really like the word [spelunking] and want to use it in conversation. I do a lot of things just to use words I like.”
― First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think
― First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think
“We're about to live through history and it's incredibly exciting. But don't make the mistake of thinking life stops because of any of this.”
― First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think
― First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think
“Voters, like history, are under no obligation to make sense.”
― First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think
― First Contact-Or, It's Later Than You Think
“it has been my experience with literary critics and academics in this country that clarity looks a lot like laziness and ignorance and childishness and cheapness to them.”
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
Evan Mandery Q&A
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A question an answer session of how to be funny in the face of overwhelming evidence of the pointlessness of everything.
