For Frying Out Loud -Rehoboth Beach Diaries

by Fay Jacobs

Overview

Fay Jacobs is back! The award-winning author of As I Lay Frying and Fried & True returns with more wise and witty recollections about contemporary life in general and more specifically life in Rehoboth Beach, a small resort town on the Delaware Coast. A treat for longtime fans and new readers alike For Frying Out Loud is a collection of Fay’s latest columns plus some new, never published material. It’s provocative, political, occasionally heartwarming and reliably hilarious. Jacobs’ witty way of describing universal experiences in her utterly unique voice will keep you laughing, smiling and relating page after page.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012103994
Publisher:	A&M Books
Publication date:	02/01/2011
Series:	Frying Trilogy , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	234
File size:	474 KB

About the Author

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Fay Jacobs, a native New Yorker, spent 30 years in the Washington, DC area working in journalism, theater and public relations. Her first book, As I Lay Frying – a Rehoboth Beach Memoir was published in 2004 and is in its 3rd printing.. Her second, Fried & True – Tales from Rehoboth Beach was released in 2007. That book won the 2008 Golden Crown Literary Society Award for non-fiction and was recognized by the National Federation of Press Women as 2008 Book of the Year for Humor. Fay has contributed feature stories and columns to such publications as The Advocate, OutTraveler, curve magazine, The Baltimore Sun, Chesapeake Bay Magazine, The Washington Blade, The Wilmington News Journal, Delaware Beach Life and more.

Since 1995 she has been a regular columnist for Letters from CAMP Rehoboth, and won the national 1997 Vice Versa Award for excellence.

She and Bonnie, her partner of 28 years, live in Rehoboth Beach, DE. They have two Miniature Schnauzers and a recreational vehicle coming soon to a town near you.

A NOTE ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
A&M Books was established in 1995 by the late Anyda Marchant and Muriel Crawford. Prior to starting A&M Books, Marchant and Crawford were two of the founders of the legendary feminist publishing house Naiad Press.
A&M Books is the publisher of the fourteen classic Sarah Aldridge novels, all of which are still in print, along with books by Fay Jacobs, the 2005 release of Celebrating Hotchclaw by feminist literary icon Ann Allen Shockley, and its newest author, Stefani Deoul, who wrote the novel The Carousel.

Editorial Reviews

Fay Jacobs is a very funny lady, as anyone who’s heard her read can attest. Her targets may be queer but her delivery and timing are pure Borscht Belt gold. The good news is she writes the same way…Jacobs covers all bases with wit, warmth and wisdom. As with any collection of columns, readers will find the mundane resting cheek-to-jowl with the monumental. It may seem disconcerting to read philosophical musings on gay marches followed by paeans to Wii fitness and the delights of sc

Jerry Wheeler

“Her columns...are laugh out loud funny and the best part is that
Jacobs is sincere...those who enjoyed Jacobs’ first collection will
not be disappointed and those reading her for the first time will
understand why she’s such a beloved columnist.”–

Jane Van Ingen

For Frying Out Loud – Rehoboth Beach Diaries by Fay Jacobs is a jaunty little collection of essays and soliloquies that covers her day-to-day life in Delaware’s Rehoboth Beach and the world beyond. No topic or bodily function is sacred, as she takes on politics, intolerance, LGBT history, technology, transportation, rendered meat products, demon dog sitting, simple home repair, NSAIDs, and chilled adult beverages. Each entry, regardless of its subject matter, is approached with r

Salem West