Satirical Americana

About the Book

Fifty naughty satires that break new ground and brighten your day with tongue-in-cheek observations you can't find anywhere else, not even on "Saturday Night Live" or "Mad TV:" *Politics and Politicians *Famous Writers *Child Beauty Pageants *Modern Art *TV Commercials *Canadian Shopping *TV Reality Shows *Liberals and Left-Wingers *Public Television *Famous Talk-Show Hosts *Government Bureaucrats *Modern Music *Miss America Pageant *Home Shopping Network *Pornography *Religion *Movie and TV Stars *Travel Articles *Sports *And Much, Much More...

About the Author

A graduate of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Francis Murray has had over 50 satires published in literary magazines in the United States, Canada and England, such as: Saturday Review (New York); The North American Review (Cornell College, Iowa); Plaintiff (Mankato State College, Minnesota); Trace (California and London); Karamu (Eastern Illinois University); Zeitgeist (Michigan State University); Nexus (California); Maguey (California); The Miscellany (Davidson College, North Carolina); University of Portland Review (Oregon); Quixote (Wisconsin); Fling (Illinois); The Cimmeron Review (Oklahoma State University); The Montrealer (Canada); New England Homestead (Massachusetts); The Human Voice (Florida); and others. His satire "Offspring," which originally appeared in Saturday Review, was reprinted in The Bedside Phoenix Nest (Ives, Washburn, New York, hardcover). A children's book, World's Wildest Animal Jokes, was published in hardcover and paperback by Sterling Publishing Co., New York.