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This Is a Book

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By Demetri Martin

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On Sale
Apr 25, 2011
Page Count
288 pages
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-13
9781609418762

Price

$9.99

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$12.99 CAD

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  1. Audiobook Download (Unabridged)
  2. Trade Paperback

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  3. Trade Paperback $21.99 $28.99 CAD

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From the renowned comedian, creator, star and executive producer/multiple title-holder of Comedy Central's Important Things with Demetri Martin comes a bold, original, and rectangular kind of humor book.

Demetri's first literary foray features longer-form essays and conceptual pieces (such as Protagonists' Hospital, a melodrama about the clinic doctors who treat only the flesh wounds and minor head scratches of Hollywood action heroes), as well as his trademark charts, doodles, drawings, one-liners, and lists (i.e., the world views of optimists, pessimists and contortionists).

Martin's unique voice and brilliant mind will keep readers in stitches from beginning to end.

Genre:

  • Nonfiction
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  • Humor Form Essays

Demetri Martin rose to relative obscurity when he started doing stand-up comedy in New York City at the end of the 20th Century. Later he became a writer at Late Night with Conan O'Brien and then a regular performer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. In 2003, Demetri won the Perrier Award at the International Fringe Festival for his first one-man show, If I. He released a comedy album called These Are Jokes and then created and starred in his own television series called Important Things with Demetri Martin.

His first stand-up comedy special, Demetri Martin. Person is considered by many to be his longest and only hour-long stand-up comedy special. Martin has appeared in movies as an actor, most recently in Steven Soderbergh's Contagion and most lengthily in Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock. His first book, This Is a Book by Demetri Martin is a New York Times Bestseller. Demetri has brown hair, and he is allergic to peanuts. You can find him at www.demetrimartin.com, at www.facebook.com/demetrimartin, on Twitter @demetrimartin, and in various places in the actual physical world.

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Demetri Martin

About the Author

Demetri Martin rose to relative obscurity doing stand-up comedy. He was a writer for Late Night with Conan O’Brien, a regular performer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and starred in his own television series, Important Things with Demetri Martin. Martin has appeared in many films including Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock. His books, This Is a Book and Point Your Face At This were both New York Times bestsellers.

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