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Time On Fire My Comedy of Terrors by Evan Handler

Table of Contents

Also by Evan Handler

Dedication

Epigraph

Conscription

Initiation

Transformation

Family Affairs

Transcendence

R&R

Eye of the Hurricane

Crying Job's Tears

On Beyond Hype

Down to Zero

Ready or Not...

The Blue Warrior

Copyright © 1996, 2012 by Evan Handler

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Author photos by Van Williams and Robert Rosenheck

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Also by Evan Handler It’s Only Temporary: The Good News and the Bad News of Being Alive

  Praise for It’s Only Temporary

“In It’s Only Temporary, Evan Handler confronts the ambiguities of life backward, forward, and in between. With hilarious honesty he reflects on the realization that we can start over again…A heartfelt book for all of us who are getting younger and older at the same time. ”

and The Kitchen God’s Wife

“In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us – warts and all.

To our amusement and bemusement we share in his emotional growth as he struggles to mature. I not only laughed along with him but felt that I too had grown a little along the way. Who could ask for more?”

—Lewis Black, comedian, Daily Show correspondent, and author of Nothing’s Sacred

“Evan Handler’s new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend. ”

—Neil Simon, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright/screenwriter of Lost In Yonkers, The Odd Couple, Brighton Beach Memoirs, and The Goodbye Girl

“Evan Handler is not only a fine actor, he’s a damn good writer. It’s Only Temporary is wise and funny and as righteously indignant as it is endearingly self-effacing. In what may be a literary first, the book actually left me wanting more. ”