Elements Of Wit: Mastering the Art of Being Interesting

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This engaging book brings together the greatest wits of our time, and previous ones from Oscar Wilde to Nora Ephron, Winston Churchill to Christopher Hitchens, Mae West to Louis CK, and many in between. With chapters covering the essential ingredients of wit, this primer sheds light on how anyone - introverts, extroverts, wallflowers and bon vivants - can find the right zinger, quip, parry or retort...Or at least be a little bit more interesting.

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Elements of Wit promises to teach the wit-deprived hordes how to become modern-day Oscar Wildes and Dorothy ParkerAn entertaining book thatwill inspire his customers to read as widely as possible and, with the help of a few martinis, crack a little wiser than before.
The Wall Street Journal

Author Bio

Ben Errett is the managing editor for features at the National Post, a Canadian national newspaper. He lives in Toronto.