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Shock of Gray
The Aging of the World's Population and How it Pits Young Against Old, Child Against Parent, Worker Against Boss, Company Against Rival, and Nation Against Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
The *New* Y**ork T**imes bestselling author of China,*** Inc***. reports on** the astounding economic and political ramifications of an aging world.
The world’s population is rapidly aging—by the year 2030, one billion people will be sixty-five or older. As the ratio of the old to the young...
Debriefing Agent Zero
An Essay from Chuck Klosterman IV
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Originally collected in Chuck Klosterman IV and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Sports, this essay is about Gilbert Arenas.
The Lady or the Tiger
An Essay from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Originally collected in Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture, this essay is about cereal.
A Toast to Bargain Wines
How Innovators, Iconoclasts, and Winemaking Revolutionaries Are Changing the Way the World Drinks
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF JUDGMENT OF PARIS EXPLORES THE THRIVING BUSINESS OF BARGAIN WINES AND OFFERS HIS RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE BEST VALUES.
Is inexpensive wine any good? Award-winning author George M. Taber shows that it is, examining the paths to success of the world’s best-selling bargain...
Blues & Chaos
The Music Writing of Robert Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Now in paperback, the definitive anthology from a writer who “set the standard for newspaper pop-music criticism” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), the New York Times’ first chief pop music critic and Rolling Stone contributor Robert Palmer.
Robert Palmer’s extraordinary knowledge and boundless...
The Mars Room
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
TIME’S #1 FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018
FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
LONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL
An instant New York Times bestseller from two-time National Book Award finalist Rachel...
Crazy Things Seem Normal, Normal Things Seem Crazy
An Essay from Chuck Klosterman IV
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Originally collected in Chuck Klosterman IV and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television, this essay is about Val Kilmer.
The Glass Castle
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Now a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts.
MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST
The perennially bestselling, extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, “nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one...
The Best American Poetry 2003
Series Editor David Lehman
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2008
"Poetry encourages us to have dialogue through the observed, the felt, and the imaginary," writes editor Yusef Komunyakaa in his thought-provoking introduction to The Best American Poetry 2003. As a black child of the American South and a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, Komunyakaa brings his...
Paul Bowles
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2004
Paul Bowles, best known for his classic 1949 novel, The Sheltering Sky, is one of the most compelling yet elusive figures of twentieth-century American counterculture. In this definitive biography, Virginia Spencer Carr has captured Bowles in his many guises: gifted composer, expatriate novelist,...
The American Radiohead
An Essay from Chuck Klosterman IV
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Originally collected in Chuck Klosterman IV and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Pop, this essay is about Jeff Tweedy.
Inventory
16 Films Featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls, 10 Great Songs Nearly Ruined by Saxophone, and 100 More Obsessively Specific Pop-Culture Lists
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Each week, the writers of The A.V. Club issue a slightly slanted pop-culture list filled with challenging opinions (Is David Bowie's "Young Americans" nearly ruined by saxophone?) and fascinating facts. Exploring twenty-four great films too painful to watch twice, fourteen tragic movie-masturbation...
My Empire of Dirt
How One Man Turned His Big-City Backyard into a Farm
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
For seven months, Manny Howard—a lifelong urbanite—woke up every morning and ventured into his eight-hundred-square-foot backyard to maintain the first farm in Flatbush, Brooklyn, in generations. His goal was simple: to subsist on what he could produce on this farm, and only this farm, for at...
by William Butler Yeats
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Autobiographies consists of six autobiographical works that William Butler Yeats published together in the mid-1930s to form a single, extraordinary memoir of the first fifty-eight years of his life, from his earliest memories of childhood to winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. This volume provides...