Insults May Vary

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Insanely creative laugh-out-loud funny </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Insults May Vary </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>is one of the finest collections of humor writing available today: a brain-on-fire romp through the craggy landscape of Western culture. Author David Ferrell combines eloquence with irreverence -- and vice versa -- as he answers questions no one has ever asked. What are the high-desert raconteurs jabbering about in Jerome Arizona?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Who started the alleged celebrity food fight at Spago if it happened and what was George Clooney wearing anyway? Why did Ernest Hemingway abandon plans for his ambitious novel sequel </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>For Whom the Phone Rings</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>? Ferrell's artistic audacity takes us from the bright lights of the spoken-word circuit to the forbidden realms of America's secret societies -- including not least of all an inside look at The Covert Anonymous Hush-Hush League.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ferrell's dark-comedy baseball novel </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Screwball</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection optioned by Universal Pictures. The author is a multi-award-winning former staff writer at the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Los Angeles Times</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> where he was a member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning news teams. Known for his sharp lyrical writing style he roamed the roiling polyglot metropolis from the teeming streets of Skid Row to the palm-shrouded mansions of Beverly Hills breathing life into tales about homelessness wealth jailhouse violence and extreme sports. Ferrell's gripping account of the Badwater Ultramarathon was featured in the anthology </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Best American Sports Writing</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. He and his family live in Long Beach California.</span></p>