• With rave reviews in the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, People, and more, I Shudder was the critical darling of 2009, and it is now ready for a wider audience in paperback.
• I Shudder is being published simultaneously with The Collected Plays of Paul Rudnick (ISBN: 9780061780202).

For more than twenty years, Paul Rudnick has been one of America’s most prominent and beloved humorists. From his acclaimed, much performed plays to his screenplays of wildly popular films to his regular contributions to Premiere magazine and The New Yorker, he has established himself as a comic genius whose talents transcend a single genre. Now, in this long awaited collection, he trains his wickedly perceptive eye on all manner of side-splitting subjects, from living in a series of increasingly bizarre, altogether fabulous apartments in New York City to cavorting with a cast of colorful artists who have to be read to be believed; dealing with some of the most perplexing yet endearing personalities in show business to handling the finer points of putting up with, and loving, one’s family, however out of their gourds they may be.

Raucous, laugh-out-loud funny, and rendered in Rudnick’s gorgeous, zinger-laden prose, I Shudder reminds us of the necessity of keeping one’s tongue sharp in the midst of life’s many obstacles and hilarities. Here truly is one of the most accomplished essay collections in years, from a writer who firmly takes his place among our most adored modern humorists, from David Sedaris to Augusten Burroughs.