How to Stay Bitter Through the Happiest Times of Your Life

by Anita Liberty

"I had a lot of bad dates. But I wrote a lot of good poems." So maintains Anita Liberty, the caustically funny New York City performance artist who was going along happily healing her hurt by hating... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812976193
• ISBN13: 9780812976199
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Villard Books
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 2.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Genius never looked so good...

Who would have thought that it could possibly get any better than "How to heal the hurt by Hating". I picked up this book totally prepared to be just a little let down (I mean seriously...Anita Liberty got married and had a kid?) That being said, I LOVED it! Married, divorced, or single, it is impossible not to relate to this book. I actually laughed so hard that red wine came out of my nose, I do recommend avoiding that because it stings a bit. BUY THIS BOOK! In fact buy a few copies because you'll be handing it out left and right to every friend you have. Viva la Liberty!

Bitter is still sweet

If a book of poetry can have a sequel, How To Stay Bitter is the sequel to the lovely and nasty How to Heal the Hurt by Hating. And a freaking fantastic sequel it is. Anita's poems chart the saga of her life. Well, really they chart life's inanities that surround us all with poems that eviscerate idiocy with a zen master's delicate touch. Stay Bitter has prose poems that nail Hollywood, cute little dogs, and one short poem on Anita's sexual fantasies that had me sniggering nastily and loudly while I read it in a playground full of sweet little tykes (getting me a lot of dirty looks from moms all around). There's even some poems about what happens when (horrors!) a bitter girl meets an actually nice guy. So buy this book, you'll laugh, you'll snigger, you'll scare wholesome moms everywhere.

loved it

I probably don't fit the 'typical' Anita Liberty fan profile...( I'm 65 years old, married to the same woman for 40 years), but I wanted to endorse the previous "PS" by Wormygirl. Guys, do yourself and your wife or girlfriend a big favor and read this book. You'll be glad you did. And it's also a real bargain...it's the most fun I've had for less than $15....well, unless you count that time in Juarez when I was 18!

I am still bitter!

I couldn't put the book down, I just had to know everything right away. Anita Liberty is happy!. Her writing style portrays a different side of Anita that we all wanted her to have but selfishly wanted it to be prolonged as much as possible. Loved poem in page 143. I can't wait for her next book and to see her live. Anita you need to come to Seattle! Also, if you want the perfect book after a breakup, you MUST read How to Heal the Hurt by Hating. We read this book during my book club and we definitely were healing by totally laughing! Thanks Anita!

Anita does it again!

I loved Anita Liberty's first hilarious and heartfelt book, How to Heal the Hurt by Hating and she does it again in this pithy next volume, where she chronicles love and marriage. I laughed out loud as she illuminated just how contradictory we can be when we get exactly what we've been asking for! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. And if you haven't read her first book, pick it up!