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With eight million (and counting) readers of herPsychology Todayblog-column,Peoplemagazine called Dr. Gina Barreca ""smart and funny."" Bestselling novelist Wally Lamb says, ""Barreca's prose, in equal measures, is hilarious and humane.""""Feminist humor maven [Gina Barreca offers] her characteristic wit and wisdom,"" writesMs. Magazine. ""Barreca learned to do what any sassy smarty-pants would: challenge stale ideas and press buttons,"" raves theChicago Tribune. ""Barreca writes with intelligence and wit,"" applauds theL.A. Times. Everyone's favorite professor and advisorGina Barreca is""wicked, witty, and wonderful,"" (Library Journal), who ""gets it just right (Booklist) and ""... is an unfailingly winning narrator,"" providingher readers with ""humor along with serious insight"" (Publishers Weekly). GINA SCHOOLoffersopen, early, and rolling admissions, perpetual latecomers, mature students, speed readers, book groups, gloriously erudite librarians, anxious applicants in need of reassurance, writers in need of prompts, and gift givers. Extravagantly illustrated, provocative, reassuring and witty,GINA SCHOOL-a gorgeously delicate yet voluptuous volume - is virtually impossible to resist as an emotional support book, a motivating tome, and a daily inspiration source. GINA SCHOOL reassures readers that they are not alone, they are not nuts, and that laughing together is as close as you can get to another person without hugging them. You never have to graduate from GINA SCHOOL and will return with delight, given that it pairs just as well with coffee and cake, cheese and fruit, espresso and champagne-and, if you wish, a cap and gown.

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They Used to Call Me Snow White, But I Drifted: Women's Strategic Uses of Humor (1991) ""...amuses while instructing. When you respond with a bitchy, funny remark, you are not so much being hostile as asserting your right to be heard. You are making sure you have the last word. And the last laugh. In Snow White, Barreca gets hers."" People Magazine ""An impassioned, wily, and often hilarious argument for women to unleash their sense of humor on the world."" The Chicago Tribune ""Shuttles fluidly between Ivory Tower scholarship and real world experience....her text mixes personal reminiscence with good counsel..."" The Christian Science Monitor ""Barreca is sharp analyst of women's humor...observant, witty, acerbic, and knowledgeable."" Los Angeles Times ""A book women will relish, one that promises it's all OK: I'm funny, you're funny."" The Hartford Courant ""Wise, liberating, and merry!"" Booklist ""Barreca offers illuminating analyses of humor as a weapon and of the Good Girl/Bad Girl dichotomy in books, movies, and TV."" Publishers Weekly ""Recommended."" Library Journal Perfect Husbands and Other Fairy Tales: Demystifying Marriage, Men and Romance. (1993) ""Smart and Funny...a useful guidebook on what to avoid."" People ""Feminist humor maven Regina Barreca takes on marriage with her characteristic wit and wisdom, demystifying the institution's roles and expectations clearly and usefully."" Ms. Magazine ""Sassy...good nature and her trademark wit."" Kirkus Reviews ""Witty, delightful...In Gina's hands, revenge is sweet."" The Chicago Tribune ""Barreca writes with intelligence and wit."" Los Angeles Times Book Review The Penguin Book of Women's Humor (1996) ""700 or so delicious pages...chockfull of treasures, wicked, witty, and wonderful."" Library Journal ""Barreca...gets it just right when she introduces this gratifyingly substantial and thoroughly invigorating anthology by stating that women's humor has always been a 'tool for survival' and a 'weapon against the absurdities of injustice.'"" Booklist Don't Tell Mama!: The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing (2002) ""This is an introduction not just to great Italian-American writing but to great literature."" Publisher's Weekly ""Editor Barreca's (They Used To Call Me Snow White, But I Drifted) introduction and her brother's counter introduction are informative and personal...there are not many books of similar scope."" Library Journal ""This anthology gives heartwarming, humorous insight into what really goes on around kitchen tables in Italian American homes...Shedding new light on social and political lives of Italian Americans, these short pieces show us in a funny way that there is more to being Italian than pasta, booming voices, and Tony Soprano."" Booklist It's Not That I'm Bitter: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World (2010) ""Humor along with serious insights..."" Publisher's Weekly ""...eminently readable...will have people laughing out loud, then sighing thoughtfully. Many readers will...re-read this quick, breezy work of commentary."" Booklist ""120-mph humor!"" Cindy Adams, New York Post Make Mine a Double: Why Women Like Us Like to Drink... Or Not. (2011) ""A collection of witty provocative pieces about women and their beverages of choice pulled together by humorist Gina Barreca, these tales of women's complex relationships with alcohol are the story of every woman's effort to find independence."" Publisher's Weekly ""In lieu of an evening out with the intelligent, witty contributors, this laugh-out-loud funny, touching, and thought-provoking collection is highly recommended."" Library Journal ""A spirited collection."" More Magazine Babes in Boyland: Personal History of Coeducation (2012) ""Witty, episodic, chatty, and decidedly personal account of being one of the first women on the [Dartmouth] campus...Barreca is an unfailingly winning narrator and if her book

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Gina Barreca's classic on women's humor, They Used to Call Me Snow White, But I Drifted, was followed by Perfect Husbands (And Other Fairy Tales), Sweet Revenge, Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Coeducation in the Ivy League, and It's Not That I'm Bitter, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World. Author of eleven books, she's also the editor of seventeen others, including Don't Tell Mama: The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing, and the Fast Women series for Woodhall Press. Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of Connecticut, Gina has appeared on ""American Masters,"" ""This American Life,"" the TODAY show, CNN, the BBC, and Oprah. Barreca's been published by the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the LA Times, Cosmopolitan, Forbes, The Chronicle of Higher Education and the Harvard Business Review. Her blog for Psychology Today has more than 8 million views. You can find her in the Library of Congress or the make-up aisle at Walgreens. John Guillemette is a writer and artist who enjoys hikes, houseplants, and disparaging mankind. He reads monks and drunks; if a monk wrote it, or a drunk wrote it, then he's probably read it. His satire has appeared in Little Old Lady Comedy, and his stories have been published in The Wild Word, Book of Matches, and Long River Review, where he received the Edwin Way Teale Award for nature writing. He lives in New Haven, CT.

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