Clothing Optional: And Other Ways to Read These Stories

✍ Scribed by Zweibel, Alan

• Book ID: 108129507
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 848 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780345509840

✦ Synopsis

"Garry, it's Alan. Look, I'm calling because I just felt the need to tell someone that I'm forty-four years old, and about an hour ago, for the first time in my life, I put suntan lotion on my ass. I'll explain later. Bye."

In Clothing Optional, Alan Zweibel offers a collection of laugh-out-loud personal narratives, essays, short fiction, dialogues, and even a few whimsical drawings. Zweibel first made a name for himself as one of the original writers for Saturday Night Live, but his career's humble beginnings included creating one-liners for Catskill comedians at seven dollars a pop. That experience is only one of the hysterically inspired anecdotes ("Comic Dialogue") in this quirky compilation.

Zweibel confesses his first love, as a young Hebrew school student, for Abraham's wife, Sarah ("At this point, Sarah's husband had been dead for more than three thousand years--so, really, who would I be hurting?"); recounts the time he was sent to a nudist...