About the Author

Patricia Marx, a television screenwriter for shows such as Saturday Night Live, is the author of How to Regain Your Virginity and Meet My Staff.

Reviews

"As funny as Kingsley Amis and Nora Ephron, yet wholly original, that Patricia Marx is a crackerjack (lady) writer. Way more talented than Gummo!" -- David Rakoff, author of Don't Get Too Comfortable

"I laughed at its audacity, and cried that I didn't write it." -- Steve Martin, author of Shopgirl

"If you're like me, you read a blurb and think, Oh, I didn't know they were friends. But I hardly know Patty -- we had dinner once (with other people, and all she had was a Diet Coke). So you can believe me when I say: This may be the funniest book I've ever read. The funniest. Ever. And keep in mind I didn't write this blurb as a favor to Patty. I did it for you. So you'd be able to pick out the funniest book in the store and take it home and laugh your head off." -- Melissa Bank, author of The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

"Laugh-aloud funny, fierce, witty, incisive, well-written, engaging, and intelligent. A wonderful book." -- Roz Chast, New Yorker cartoonist and author of The Party, After You Left

"Patricia Marx is a wonderfully funny writer." -- Ian Frazier, author of Gone to New York

"Patricia Marx's dazzling book is painfully hilarious, and at the same time hilariously painful, and, for that matter, flat-out hilarious. Frankly, I've never enjoyed a bad relationship this much." -- Susan Orlean, author of My Kind of Place

"Patty Marx is a complete original, with a dry, observant wit, a feeling for descriptive detail, and a cool kind of warmth, all entirely her own. Her tale of love sort of found and sort of lost in Cambridge and Manhattan will make any reader laugh hard and think harder." -- Adam Gopnik, author of Through the Children's Gate and Paris to the Moon

Humor writer for The New Yorker, Marx spins a debut about a neurotic grad student who can't stop loving the wrong man. With a four-city tour. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

"As funny as Kingsley Amis and Nora Ephron, yet wholly original, that Patricia Marx is a crackerjack (lady) writer. Way more talented than Gummo!"

-- David Rakoff, author of Don't Get Too Comfortable
"I laughed at its audacity, and cried that I didn't write it."

-- Steve Martin, author of Shopgirl
"If you're like me, you read a blurb and think, Oh, I didn't know they were friends. But I hardly know Patty -- we had dinner once (with other people, and all she had was a Diet Coke). So you can believe me when I say: This may be the funniest book I've ever read. The funniest. Ever. And keep in mind I didn't write this blurb as a favor to Patty. I did it for you. So you'd be able to pick out the funniest book in the store and take it home and laugh your head off."

-- Melissa Bank, author of The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
"Laugh-aloud funny, fierce, witty, incisive, well-written, engaging, and intelligent. A wonderful book."

-- Roz Chast, New Yorker cartoonist and author of The Party, After You Left
"Patricia Marx is a wonderfully funny writer."

-- Ian Frazier, author of Gone to New York
"Patricia Marx's dazzling book is painfully hilarious, and at the same time hilariously painful, and, for that matter, flat-out hilarious. Frankly, I've never enjoyed a bad relationship this much."

-- Susan Orlean, author of My Kind of Place
"Patty Marx is a complete original, with a dry, observant wit, a feeling for descriptive detail, and a cool kind of warmth, all entirely her own. Her tale of love sort of found and sort of lost in Cambridge and Manhattan will make any reader laugh hard and think harder."

-- Adam Gopnik, author of Through the Children's Gate and Paris to the Moon