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Hilarious insights and revelations from one of Canada's favourite humorists.


The award-winning author of Looking Blackward, Black is the New Green, and many more, is "black" again with more gut-busting stories and essays. In this latest collection of fascinating facts and amusing tales, Black recounts his journey to Vietnam and Thailand, where his "dirty" American money is turned down and a massage turns into a fish feeding frenzy. He turns his critical eye and warped funny bone to a wide array of offbeat topics, including the cafe-office culture of free wifi and complex coffee concoctions, and the danger of reading too many kinky romance novels. Yet, good news is in the air too, with Black extolling how gum had been found to be good for children’s teeth. With hilarious insights, Arthur Black once again proves why he's a Canadian comedy writing legend.

Arthur Black--beloved radio personality, newspaper columnist, bestselling author and two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour--shows no symptoms of a weary funny bone with his latest offering Pitch Black.
Pitch Black delivers hilarious insights on the medical application of duct tape, the real difference between men and women, how to reuse that Commodore 64 in the closet and why writers dread cocktail parties and barbeques ("A stranger asks you what you do; you tell them you're a writer. And they come back with 'No, I meant what do you do for a LIVING.'").
At least one writer need not fear the hors d'oeuvres table--Pitch Black proves that Arthur Black is master of his craft. Laughs are guaranteed.

Like a well-delivered punch line, Black White And Read All Over, the tenth book by award-winning writer Arthur Black, is guaranteed to make you laugh. The beloved radio personality and newspaper columnist tackles a range of subjects from Sasquatch hunters to nose jobs to the legalization of pot. Known for his delight in the bizarre and derision of the absurd, Black holds nothing back as he comments on the caprices of a society in which people can leave a legacy by naming bugs after themselves, coffee beans initially "processed" by small Indonesian marsupials sell for $110 US a pound in San Francisco, and gambling and fitness machines have combined so "all those casino addicts steadfastly clutching the plastic buckets of quarters and loonies now have a chance to lose pounds as they lose their money." In his trademark style, Black introduces readers to a colourful cast of characters, including a rock-and-roll critic enroute to her 60th high school reunion, a paralyzed author who wrote an entire novel by moving his left eye to indicate letters of the alphabet, and a Canadian senator who delivered a speech lasting 44 hours ("asking a politician to speak for five minutes is like expecting a great white shark to eat with a dessert spoon"). Black believes that "life, when you think of it, is really a series of accidents all strung together like a necklace fashioned by a drunkard." Dip into Black White And Read All Over, and you'll see why.

Arthur Black is back in this lively new collection of his wit and wisdom. Once again, Black attacks our perceptions of daily living and surrenders to bureaucratic eventualities. Who else but Arthur Black would sit naked at a nude beach and envision people with their clothes on? Or, on the issue of sex education, opt for lying to children?
Black Ties and Tales is also a compilation of curiosity: Why is a man in Italy hoarding the world's cutlery? Why will we see the resurgence of the push mower? Who is on a quest for the ultimate shoe shine? Why does Arthur Black want to live in a thankless world?

Black takes aim at everything from politicians to nuisance lawsuits, from erotica to the Scots -- and he does it with his trademark linguistic twists. After you've read this book, you'll discover why it's not easy being Arthur Black.