Dating Your Mom
OpenDating Your Momto any page and begin to read; chances are you won't make it 10 seconds without laughing. ("In today's fast-moving, transient, rootless society, where people meet  and make love and part without ever really touching, the relationship every guy already has with his own mother is too valuable to ignore. Here is a grown, experienced, loving woman...") A collection of Ian Frazier'sNew Yorkerpieces from the 1970s and '80s, it's a tremendous book. Frazier is undoubtedly one of  the finest living humorists--a Thurber Prize-winner--andDating Your Momis what cemented his  reputation. His jokes are turned just so, and if the subject matter can be a little elliptical, (as in the story "Bob's Bob House") that flaw is more than excused by the guffaws that surround it.