More than 30 idiot-proof recipes broken down into a step by step process so simple even a bachelor can understand. ("Open oven door. Slide out rack.") The reader will also learn important rules for getting his apartment date-ready. ("Back to the underside of the toilet seat, the cleaning equivalent of diving in front of a slap shot. Grab the wet sponge and flip it over so that the Astroturf side is the active one. Start scrubbing. Might not be a bad idea to take a page out of Michael Keaton's handbook from "Mr. Mom" and place a clothespin over your nose.")Lastly, the bachelor gets a pre-flight checklist to ensure that he is a "go" for his date. ("Ears. Like an ambidextrous miner, arm yourself with Q-tips and go drilling. Repeat with clean swabs until the tips emerge from your ears still white. Note: For those older than 35, I hate to break it to you but you are a 2:1 shot for ear hair. Snip, snip. Sob, sob.")

BACHELOR 101: Cooking + Cleaning = Closing

REIDY, JAMIE

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Lamo Jamo Publishing

"A Walk's As Good As A Hit" is a collection of hilarious and occasionally poignant essays about a son's attempts to avoid becoming his father. With wit and candor, the author tackles timeless topics - grades, girls, family vacations - of family discord. Eventually, Reidy realizes becoming his old man isn't the worst thing that can happen to him.

A Walk's As Good As A Hit: Advice/Threats from My Old Man

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

HumorOutcasts Press

Presents an insider look at the pharmaceutical industry from a former salesman of Viagra, discussing some of the questionable ways in which the drug was marketed and the tactics he used to persuade the doctors he visited to prescribe the drug.

Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman

Business & Money

Industries

Andrews McMeel Publishing

The first paperback edition of Reidy’s memoir describing his successful career in Big Pharma as Pfizer’s #1 salesmen during the launching of Viagra. Published to tie-in with Fox’s international movie release of the film Love and Other Drugs based on Reidy’s book and starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway, Thanksgiving weekend 2010. Jamie Reidy is the guy who's been there, done that, and walked away with the insider stories. Inside Hard Sell: Now a Major Motion Picture LOVE and OTHER DRUGS, you'll find yourself rooting for Reidy and shocked by the realities of the world that paid his salary. This comedic expose traces Reidy's experiences from Pfizer training to life as the "V-Man," when Reidy became Pfizer's number-one drug rep during the Viagra craze. With equal parts self-confidence and self-mockery, Reidy takes the reader on a hilarious romp through pharma-culture while revealing the controversial side of the drug industry. From viewing a circumcision to gaining a doctor's rapport to providing insight on why doctors choose to prescribe Drug X over Drug Y, and from how to bargain "sigs" and "scripts" to why the Viagra pill is shaped as a diamond, Reidy discloses everything. A witty, behind-the-scenes look at an industry that touches everyone in America with a prescription, Hard Sell uncovers truths about the pharmaceutical industry you'd rather not know and practices you'd like to believe weren't employed. Hard Sell has been adapted into a major motion picture starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway.

Hard Sell: Now a Major Motion Picture LOVE and OTHER DRUGS

"Way better than '50 Shades of Grey.'" - Someone who has not read '50 Shades of Grey.' A collection of humorous essays about a son's attempts to avoid becoming his father. Resistance is futile.

Got a sports bucket list? His parents told him he was crazy. His friends said he'd never do it. #HoldMyBeer In September 2013, Jamie Reidy set out to complete Sports Year, his Hail Mary attempt at a return to literary success while also recusing himself from self-inflicted midlife and debt crisis.  With very little planning and even less funding, the itinerary called for Reidy to hit a sports event every day, ranging from the Super Bowl down to a six-year-old girls' basketball game. (FYI: the refs don't call traveling.) Along the way, he'd visit all the iconic venues like Lambeau,, Fenway, Rupp, et al.  He saw a Heisman Trophy winner play... hoops ... in a men's rec league. Jamie tailgated with strangers at The Grove, The World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party, and Army-Navy. He discovered his favorite new sport: women's indoor volleyball. He also witnessed sports that didn't really qualify as such: inner-tube water polo and Cleveland Browns Football.  Not to go to all Tom Rinaldi on you, but it "got a little dusty" at times. Reidy watched in awe as wheelchair bowlers and amputee softball players transcended any so-called limitations. He also brought wounded veterans to games on their sports Bucket Lists, giving him much needed perspective on what constitutes actual "problems."   So, Jamie actually made it the entire year?!  Yeah, no. He fell shorter than a Shaq free throw.  But, but for five magical months, the author was a daily spectator of the human condition, and the result - Need One! - is a hilarious and heartfelt road-trip memoir. Reidy learned that while scoreboards don't allow for moral victories, life sure does.

Need One!: A Lunatic’s Attempt to Attend 365 Games in 365 Days

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BACHELOR 101: Cooking + Cleaning = Closing

A Walk's As Good As A Hit: Advice/Threats from My Old Man

Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman

Hard Sell: Now a Major Motion Picture LOVE and OTHER DRUGS

A Walk's As Good As A Hit: Advice/Threats from My Old Man

Need One!: A Lunatic’s Attempt to Attend 365 Games in 365 Days