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...civil rights 1950s, a sweltering fever dream of boardinghouses and all-black bars built on the frayed fringes of Raymond Chandlerville. Of course, Mosley is better known for Rawlins, but in many ways the Fearless Jones books make better reading: they're lighter on their feet, funnier and and quicker paced. At the beginning of Fear Itself, Fearless turns up on Paris' doorstep with a tale of woe involving a missing business partner, a mysterious woman, detectives on his trail, truckloads of contraband watermelons...well, there's no point trying to explain it all. Mosley's plots are complicated...
Taylor, 30, and Sharkey, 31, are nationally syndicated sex columnists, and just as dating sometimes leads to bigger commitments, they've now written a book. The Big Bang (Plume; 258 pages) is this generation's smarter, funnier and raunchier version of The Joy of Sex. Not that Taylor and Sharkey don't like the archetypal sex primer and its clinical line drawings. "It just takes itself very seriously, which a lot of people our age and younger can't relate to," Sharkey says. "We wanted to take a more fun approach to sex while making sure we put forth good...
...this way, colleagues say, Meyer’s presence spurs other “Simpsons” writers to be funnier...
...It’s good for the show—but sad to watch—when you write a paragraph in search of a joke and George replaces it with a sentence which is funnier and clearer than what you had,” Vitti says...
Finally, they will have to change the mingy, defensive, consultant-driven style of recent campaigns. They will need a candidate who is easy in his skin, who sounds different from other politicians--freer, perhaps; funnier, certainly--and who is confident enough to risk broad, bold themes that capture the national imagination rather than parsing the special yearnings of enough demographic slivers to win the election. Camouflage will not be enough this time...