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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Stephen Leacock, David Rakoff, John Kricfalusi, Paul Quarrington, Dana Larsen, Greg Clark, John Robert Colombo, Phil Callaway, Jonathan Goldstein, Ryan North, Don Harron, Saucy Sylvia, Eric Nicol, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, Zarqa Nawaz, Will Ferguson, Mark Leiren-Young, Sean Kelly, Kate Beaton, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Max Ferguson, Miriam Toews, Jason Jones, Bill Richardson, Donald Jack, Stuart McLean, Bruce McCall, Larry Zolf, Mark Shainblum, Gordon Kirkland, Lynn Coady, Drew Hayden Taylor, Harry J. Boyle, Max Braithwaite, Morley Torgov, Erika Ritter, Urban Carmichael, Al Clouston, Herb Curtis, Terry Fallis, Howard White, Kevin Sylvester, Scott Feschuk, Hilda Kay Grant, Paul Hiebert, Michel Choquette, Paul Marlowe, Maynard Morrison, Robert Cohen, David Martin, Brian Joseph Davis, George Reinblatt, Mark A. Rayner, Armin Wiebe, Wallace Reyburn, John Wing, Jr., Ian Ferguson, David McGimpsey, Jim Slotek, Stanley Burke. Excerpt: David Rakoff (born November 27, 1964) is a Canadian-born writer based in New York City who is noted for his humorous, sometimes autobiographical non-fiction essays. Rakoff is an essayist, journalist and actor and is a regular contributor to Public Radio International's This American Life. Rakoff has described himself as a "New York writer" who also happens to be a "Canadian writer," a "Jewish writer," a "gay writer'" and an "East Asian Studies major who has forgotten most of his Japanese" writer. David Rakoff was born on November 27, 1964 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is the youngest of three children: his brother, the comedian Simon Rakoff, is four years older than David and their sister Ruth, a family-conflict mediator, is the middle child. David Rakoff has said that he and his siblings were close as children. Rakoff's mother, Gina Shochat-Rakoff, is a doctor who has practised psychotherapy...
