Poetry. Mischievous, generous and side-splittingly funny, this collection of wry soliloquies and sonnets begins with a milestone birthday and finds itself - through antic turns and lyric flips to demi-mondes as varied as the offices of university regents and the basic plot arc of Hawaii Five-O - to a sincere contemplation of mortality and the fashion sense of Mary Tyler Moore. Unembarrassed by its literary allusions or its hi-lo hybridity, Sitcom's strategic and encompassing voice is prepared for each comedic disaster and is, somehow, always ready for next week's episode. "[McGimpsey] finds the humanity hiding in the hilarity. This guy is as funny as David Sedaris, and more inventive"- The Ottawa Citizen.

Author City: MONTREAL, QC CAN

David McGimpsey was born and raised in Montreal. He has a PhD in English Literature and is the author of the award- winning study Imagining Baseball: America's Pastime and Popular Culture (Indiana University Press, 2000). He is the author of DINGERS: CONTEMPORARY BASEBALL WRITING (DC Books, 2008), as well as five acclaimed collections of poetry, including Lardcake (ECW Press, 1996), SITCOM (Coach House Books, 2007) and LI'L BASTARD (Coach House Books, 2011). His travel writings frequently appear in the Globe and Mail and he writes the Sandwich of the Month column for EnRoute magazine. He teaches at Concordia University.