Lately, the bestseller lists have been awash with comics' memoirs.
In her half-prose, half-comics memoir, Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
At 92, John Mills still performs a one-man comic memoir that his daughter describes as hilarious.
The tone of James's comic memoir could not be much further removed from Hazzard's novel, but the experiences they relate are remarkably similar.
Sketching each stop with deft relish, Thompson almost launches another genre - the picaresque comic memoir of sporting incompetence.
Delaney's air of gratitude isn't surprising, given the recovery he has undergone since the traumatic early years recounted in his 2013 comic memoir, Rob Delaney: Mother.
Batuman tackles a syllabus-full of Russian heavyweights – Babel, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky – and in so doing provides a winning, comic memoir of graduate student life and its discontents.
In fact, it defined the genre - the comic memoir of sporting incompetence - and sold so well that Berkmann wrote a sequel, Zimmer Men (2005).
Stuart's comic memoir of life in Concord, Massachusetts, begins with one of many mordant insights into New England Wasp culture: "If you come from New England, the creeping certainty that you are a bad person is always with you".
Page A16 Obituaries KATHERINE RUSSELL RICH, 56 Her novel,"The Red Devil: To Hell With Cancer -- and Back," was a gritty, darkly comic memoir of her protracted battle with breast cancer and became a beacon for other patients.
