Someone Will Be with You Shortly: Notes from a Perfectly Imperfect Life

Someone Will Be with You Shortly: Notes from a Perfectly Imperfect Life

by Lisa Kogan
Someone Will Be with You Shortly: Notes from a Perfectly Imperfect Life

Someone Will Be with You Shortly: Notes from a Perfectly Imperfect Life

by Lisa Kogan

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Overview

“[Kogan’s] wry observations of everyday life will hearten you on your worst days, validate you on your best, and make you laugh any day at all.” — Martha Beck, author of Expecting Adam and Finding Your Own North Star

Someone Will Be with You Shortly is a delectable blend of wit, whimsy, pith, and poignancy. If David Sedaris were a girl... this is the book he’d write.” — Evan Handler, author of It's Only Temporary

Someone Will Be with You Shortly is a collection of the hilarious and poignant essays from beloved O Magazine columnist Lisa Kogan. Writing in the vein of Nora Ephron, Kogan has been called "the Erma Bombeck of our generation" (Kelly Corrigan, author of The Middle Place and Lift). In Someone Will Be with You Shortly, she brings her trademark humor to such real-life quandaries as single motherhood, aging, and sex.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780061735035
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 03/01/2011
Pages: 198
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Lisa Kogan is the writer-at-large for O, The Oprah Magazine. She lives in New York City with her seven-year-old daughter.

Table of Contents

1 A Brief History of Me 1

2 Piece of Cake 8

3 Messing with My Head 12

4 Margaret Has Spoken 17

5 Men: How and Why 22

6 Advice from "A Terrific Gal" 27

7 Julia Has Three Mommies 35

8 Sugar Shock 41

9 They'll Always Have Paris 50

10 Miss Kogan Regrets 55

11 The Hours 61

12 The Silent Killer 68

13 Bed, Bacon, and Beyond 72

14 The First Bad Thing I Ever Did 77

15 One Night Only 81

16 Taking a Chance on Love 86

17 Kogan's Heroes 91

18 To Grandmother's House We Go 101

19 Up on the Roof 105

20 Love, Loss, and What I Ate 108

21 Yesterday, When I Was Young 116

22 How You (Yes, You!) Should Live Your Life 121

23 Was It Good for You? 125

24 I am Curious Yellow 136

25 Paging Amy Vanderbilt 141

26 Till Sleep Do Us Part 144

27 Truth or Dare 149

28 "What the Hell Kind of Bra Are You Wearing?" 154

29 Reasons to Live 165

30 It's My Party-and I'll Make Witty, Albeit Possibly Inappropriate and/or Offensive Remarks-If I Want To 169

31 What to Expect When You're Not Expecting 174

32 Supper at Satan's 182

33 What Did Dorothy Parker Know, and When Did She Know It? 187

34 That Man, Morris Aaron 192

35 It Had to Be You 194

Acknowledgments 199

What People are Saying About This

Evan Handler

“Lisa Kogan’s Someone Will Be with You Shortly is a delectable blend of wit, whimsy, pith, and poignancy. If David Sedaris were a girl (who’d had her pocket book licked by a stranger on Lexington Avenue) this is the book he¹d write.”

Amy Hempel

“Lisa Kogan has a singularly humane stance as she makes comic sense of the annoying and baffling facts of life. The inventor of ‘the dessert potato’ has made me laugh for yearsshe’s been a comfort, too.”

Kelly Corrigan

“Lisa Kogan might just be the Erma Bombeck of our generation. Sassy, blunt, and so damn true.”

Martha Beck

“Her wry observations of everyday life will hearten you on your worst days, validate you on your best, and make you laugh any day at all. Buy it, if not to keep Lisa writing, then as an investment in your own happiness. God knows you deserve one fail-safe investment.”

Amy Dickinson

“Lisa Kogan is the intellectual and creative love child of Noel Coward and Loretta Lynn. Someone Will Be With You Shortly is a hilarious, honest and tender chronical of everyday life as most of us really live it. Lisa Kogan sings all the right grace notes with absolutely perfect pitch.”

Peter Smith

“Lisa Kogan’s Someone Will Be with You Shortly is like curling up with your best, crabbiest, kindest, wisest, most singular friend on earth.”

Peggy Orenstein

“I admit it. I’m a big, drooling Lisa Kogan groupie. I’d read the ingredients on a cereal box if I thought she’d written them. She is funny, wise, compelling, loveable, fallible…So a whole book by her? What heaven!!”

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