These audio books are stories which I have been telling out loud, often ad nauseum, for years, which ended up in my short story collections and now find themselves being recounted out loud once again. In part, they are like stories you would hear from a bar stool, back yard bbq, or around the campfire and, in part, like an old time radio play.
My inability to remember whether it is garbage or recycling day lands me with a new pet.
Two dates on the same day is too much for a guy who does not have the ability to get through even one.
An explosive boss, a hapless paint salesman, and the cheapest lunch in business history.
I take my wheelchair-bound friend Harold to the mall on a doomed mattress-buying adventure.
Me as a child, wanting that new hot wheels track. My parents, invoking an ancient Egyptian saying, announce I will get it when Apricot season arrives. But when will that ever be?
I make sure a trip to Home Depot to buy a fence does not go as planned.
An account of a legendary Cairo patisserie and how its odd name led to a decades-long blunder.
P.R firm Leviticus and Numbers are tasked with rebranding a major Jewish holiday in this bizarre Babylonian saga.
In Moscow, nine out of the ten times we stood in line, we did not know what we were standing in line for. Moscow was a city of people lines. It did not matter what it was. Because we needed everything.
While most of the tales are true, I have taken great care to make sure the truth does not get in the way of a perfectly good story.
With a cast of characters, both real and imagined, including the hilarious and quirky Lewberg and Goldfarb, Zevy blends fiction, memoir, and surreal meta in stories that entertain.
These stories, memoirs and vignettes are more Larry David than Shalom Aleichem.
Almost the Truth is a collection of stories, recollections and memoirs which crackle with wit, brazen sentimentality and unfiltered self awareness.