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In this hilarious collection of personal essays, __New York Times__ bestselling author Merrill Markoe reveals, among other things, the secret formula for comedy: Start out with a difficult mother, develop some classic teenage insecurities, add a few relationships with narcissistic men, toss in an unruly pack of selfish dogs, finish it off with the kind of crystalline perspective that only comes from years of navigating a roiling sea of unpleasant and unappeasable people, and—voilà!—you’re funny!But in __Cool, Calm & Contentious,__ Markoe also reveals something more: herself. This is by far her most personal, affecting collection yet—honest, unapologetic, often painful, but always shot through with the bracing, wicked sense of humor that has made her such a beloved and incisive observer of life, both human and canine. In __Cool, Calm & Contentious,__ she goes there: from the anal-retentive father who once spent ten minutes lecturing Markoe’s forty-year-old, Ph.D.-wielding brother on how to fold a napkin, to the eternally aggrieved mother who took pleasure in being unpleasant to waiters and spent most of her life, Markoe says, in “varying degrees of pissed off”; from the way she surr

Who reads Cool, Calm & Contentious : Essays?

Author

Merrill Markoe

Publisher

Villard

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780345518910

Category

humor

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.22 / 5 (850 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14