Icons Sam Pickering and Sam Venable have long entertained their reading audiences with witty and humorous observations about day-to-day living. Both men have released a new book this season; Pickering’s Autumn Spring and Venable’s Someday I May Find Honest Work are now available in bookstores, online bookstores, and at utpress.org.

Autumn Spring Sam Pickering / Paperback / 152 pages / More info or read excerpt “No one creates so many memorable, saucy aphorisms-piquant, bitter-sweet, arousing.” -Pat C. Hoy II, New York University Sam Pickering’s essays are funny and wise-and always intoxicating, eggnog to warm glazed winter nights and juleps to cool sweltering summer days. He wanders Connecticut, Canada, and the South, seeding his old farm in Nova Scotia with words and scattering paragraphs in and about classrooms at the University of Connecticut.

Some Day I May Find Honest Work Sam Venable / Paperback / 232 pages / More info or read excerpt In these warm and witty pieces, Venable pokes good-natured fun at everything from fast food to government folly, from high-tech confusion to the perils of aging, from the eternal strife between the sexes to daily life in East Tennessee.