TALES FROM THE TEACHERS' LOUNGE
From the critically acclaimed author of Daddy Needs a Drink—hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “consistently hilariousâ€â€”comes a series of irreverent, wickedly observant essays about what it really means to be a teacher today. With his trademark wit and wisdom, Robert Wilder dissects the world’s noblest profession—whether he’s taming a classroom full of hormonal teenagers or going one-on-one with the school bully.
Wilder was twenty-six when he found his true calling. Leaving a lucrative advertising career in New York, he got a job as an assistant first-grade teacher at a Santa Fe alternative school—and never looked back. Now he brings his unique perspective—as a teacher, parent, and former student—to a series of laugh-out-loud essays that show teaching at its most absurd…and most rewarding. With brutal candor he chronicles his own lively adventures in modern education, from navigating cutthroat kindergarten sign-ups to subbing for a class experiment gone wrong–and dares to tell about it. , TALES FROM THE TEACHERS' LOUNGE shows what it really means to be a teacher today.
DADDY NEEDS A DRINK
A Santa Fe dad shares heartwarming, comic, often ludicrous tales of raising a family in this laugh-out-loud book perfect for anyone who enjoys the edgy humor of David Sedaris or the whimsical commentary of Dave Barry. Waxing both profound and profane on issues close to a father’s heart–from exploding diapers to toddler tantrums, from the horrors of dressing up as Frosty the Snowman to the moments that make a father proud–Robert Wilder brilliantly captures the joys and absurdities of being a parent today. By turns tender, irreverent, and hysterically funny, DADDY NEEDS A DRINK is a hilarious and poignant tribute to his family by a man who truly loves being a father.
Robert Wilder has published fiction and nonfiction in Newsweek, Parenting, Details, Salon, Creative Nonfiction, The Greensboro Review, The Colorado Review, and elsewhere. He has been a commentator for NPR’s Morning Edition, “The Big Show with Honey Harris†on KBAC FM in Santa Fe and Back Roads Radio. His fiction and essays have been nominated for numerous awards including The Pushcart Prize. His column, “Daddy Needs a Drink,†is published monthly in the Santa Fe Reporter. He is the former director of the Southwest Literary Center of Recursos de Santa Fe which includes the Writers Reading Series and the Santa Fe Writers Conference. DADDY NEEDS A DRINK is his first book. TALES FROM THE TEACHERS' LOUNGE is his second.
