Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons, 1978-2006

by Roz Chast, David Remnick (Introduction)

Overview

A rich collection of three decades of Roz Chast's most beloved cartoons.

"Where would we be without Roz Chast? Chast's magnificent career-spanning collection highlights her position as master of the deep interior, of the obsessions, the baseless fears and the weird proverbs to which we cling in our desperation not to leave the house."- Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times

This wonderfully comprehensive collection spanning nearly three decades and arranged chronologically-and drawn from the pages of magazines including Scientific American and Redbook as well as The New Yorker-brings together, for the first time, the very best of Roz Chast, whom O Magazine called "the wryest pen since Dorothy Parker's."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781596915404
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	10/28/2008
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	8.96(w) x 10.50(h) x 1.01(d)

About the Author

Roz Chast's cartoons began appearing in the New Yorker in 1978, where she has since published more than one thousand. She is the author of the graphic memoirs Can We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, a #1 New York Times bestseller (100+ weeks), a National Book Critics Circle Award and Kirkus Prize winner and finalist for the National Book Award; National Bestseller I Must Be Dreaming; Going Into Town (Winner of the New York City Book Award); What I Hate: From A to Z; and her cartoon collections The Party, After You Left and Theories of Everything, among others. She was awarded the Harvey Hall of Fame Award. She lives in Connecticut and New York.

David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker since 1998, began his career at the Washington Post, in 1982. He is the author of several books, including The Bridge, King of the World, Resurrection, and Lenin’s Tomb, for which he received both the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction and a George Polk Award for excellence in journalism. He became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1992 and has since written more than two hundred pieces for the magazine. In 2015, he debuted as the host of the national radio program and podcast, “The New Yorker Radio Hour,” which airs weekly. Under Remnick’s leadership, The New Yorker has become the country’s most honored magazine, with a hundred and ninety-two National Magazine Award nominations and fifty-three wins. In 2016, it became the first magazine to receive a Pulitzer Prize for its writing, and now has won six, including the gold medal for public service.

Editorial Reviews

Ms. Chast... [has] transformed her hypochondriacal dyspepsia into cartoons that not only chronicle her own fears, worries and anxieties but that also show us how we live today.” —New York Times

“Chast is arguably the greatest living practitioner of a minor art, that of the magazine cartoon.” —Time Magazine

“Her standout cartoons for The New Yorker and other publications find the odd truths just beneath the surface of the everyday.” —The Onion

“The complete works of this delightfully off-kilter New Yorker cartoonist will dispel any blues.” —Glamour

“It's a big, fat, wonderful book.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“At long last a maximum-strength dose of the New Yorker magazine's genius of the weirdities and absurdities of modern life.” —Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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