  | Book Details Title: You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples |
Book DescriptionAbout the Author Author: Patricia Marx has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1989. She is a former writer for Saturday Night Live and Rugrats, and is the author of several books, including Let’s Be Less Stupid, Him Her Him Again The End of Him, and Starting from Happy. Marx was the first woman elected to the Harvard Lampoon. She has taught at Princeton, New York University, and Stonybrook University. She is recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.Illustrator: Roz Chast has loved to draw cartoons since she was a child growing up in Brooklyn. She attended Rhode Island School of Design, majoring in Painting because it seemed more artistic. However, soon after graduating, she reverted to type and began drawing cartoons once again. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? Read more Customers Review: “You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples” is brilliant. As an advice book, I think that it mostly tells us what we already know. As a humor book, it is wonderful. There has to be some truth behind the humor to make it funny.One example that struck home was the page showing the Adventure Travel for Two Monthly. A friend once asked me if I used to do mountain climbing with my then wife.Another subject that is covered is restaurant food sharing. In my current relationship, we have developed a set of rules by trial and error. She can have as many of my fries as she wants. In exchange, I am not allowed to touch her shrimp. Seems about right.I have not been familiar with the work of Patricia Marx, but I am happy to see her working with Roz Chast. I encountered Roz Chast once, at the New York City Book Fair in 1982. I mentioned the Pilkers from the Parallel Universes cartoon. She smiled, briefly.I plan to give this book as a Valentines Day present.
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