Popcorn
by Ben Elton | 
Lost for Words
by Edward St. Aubyn | 
The Book, the Film, the T-shirt
by Matt Beaumont | 
Home Land
by Sam Lipsyte | 
A Breath of French Air
by H. E. Bates | 
The Afterlife Diet
by Daniel Pinkwater | 
Wake Up, Sir!
by Jonathan Ames | 
My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist
by Mark Leyner | 
Care of Wooden Floors
by Will Wiles | 
The Tetherballs of Bougainville
by Mark Leyner |
The Best a Man Can Get
by John O'Farrell | 
Around the World With Auntie Mame
by Patrick Dennis | 
Doomed
by Chuck Palahniuk | 
The Best Awful
by Carrie Fisher | 
Apathy and Other Small Victories
by Paul Neilan | 
P.S. Your Cat Is Dead
by James Kirkwood | 
Hello Darling, Are You Working?
by Rupert Everett | 
Magical Thinking
by Augusten Burroughs | 
Possible Side Effects
by Augusten Burroughs | 
Tell Me It's Real
by TJ Klune |
Light and funny, with a bitter aftertaste, the action of Sellevision takes place behind the scenes (and on the set) of a successful television shopping network, where a feminine role model, Peggy Jean Smythe, the married, Christian mother of three, begins receiving suspicious e-mail from a viewer who insists that Peggy's hairy earlobe is obscuring her presentation of jewelry during the broadcast. When Peggy fails to respond to the e-mail, but silently waxes her lobe, the cruel notes escalate, until Peggy believes herself to be suffering from a hormonal crisis that has given her a mustache, a gruff voice, and the manner of a lumberjack. Meanwhile, one of her cohosts, Max Andrews, has been fired for accidentally exposing himself during a children's special, and learns just how undesirable a commodity a penis-baring ex-Sellevision host can be on the job market. The book is an unusually smooth read for a first novel, with six or seven truly inspired lines.