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Planet Funny
How Comedy Took Over Our Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
The witty and exuberant New York Times bestselling author Ken Jennings relays the history of humor in “lively, insightful, and crawling with goofy factlings,” (Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go Bernadette)—from fart jokes on clay Sumerian...
Ardent Spirits
Leaving Home, Coming Back
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
In his third volume of memoir, Reynolds Price explores six crucial years of his life -- his departure from home in 1955 to spend three years as a student at Oxford University; then his return to North Carolina to begin his long career as a university teacher.
He gives often moving, and frequently...
My Two Polish Grandfathers
And Other Essays on the Imaginative Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
AWARD-WINNING AND CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED WRITER WITOLD RYBCZYNSKI DELIVERS A REVELATORY COLLECTION OF LINKED AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS -- PART MEMOIR, PART FAMILY HISTORY -- ABOUT THE UPHEAVALS OF EUROPEAN LIVES DURING WORLD WAR II, HIS OWN INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT, AND THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGES OF ART,...
On Writing
A Memoir Of The Craft
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2000
Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this special edition of Stephen King’s critically lauded, million-copy bestseller shares the experiences, habits, and convictions that have shaped him and his work.
“Long live the King” hailed Entertainment Weekly upon publication...
Full Frontal Nudity
The Making of an Accidental Actor
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
IN 2008, as he attempted to enter Canada to film a television series, Harry Hamlin—the former star of L.A. Law and once People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive—was detained at the border for unresolved narcotics convictions. And so begins Full Frontal Nudity, a laugh-out-loud-funny memoir in which...
Television
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 VH1.
Fargo Rock City, for Real
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 Rock, this essay is about underground rock.
All These Things That I've Done
My Insane, Improbable Rock Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
“The most trusted opinion in rock music” (Billy Corgan, The Smashing Pumpkins), Matt Pinfield offers the ultimate music fan’s memoir, a chronicle of the songs and artists that inspired his improbable career alongside some of the all-time greats, from The Beatles to KISS to U2 to The Killers.
Matt...
Viva Morrissey!
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 Morrissey fans.
The Jack Factor
An Excerpt from Fargo Rock City
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Originally published in Fargo Rock City and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Rock, this essay is about Chuck's favorite heavy metal albums.
by Amy Hempel
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2006
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel gathers together the complete work of a writer whose voice is as singular and astonishing as any in American fiction. Hempel, fiercely admired by writers and reviewers, has a sterling reputation that is based on four very short collections of stories, roughly fifteen...
Furnishing Eternity
A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
“A lifetime’s worth of workbench philosophy in a heartfelt memoir about the connection between a father and son” (Kirkus Reviews)—the acclaimed author of The Hard Way on Purpose confronts mortality, survives loss, and finds resilience through an unusual woodworking project—constructing,...
by Richard Howard
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1995
The Best American Poetry 1995 once again highlights the dazzling spectrum of style and subject matter to be found in the art today. Guest editor Richard Howard's accent is on discovery and surprise, and he has gleaned the most inventive and searching writing from a wide variety of literary journals....
I Invented the Modern Age
The Rise of Henry Ford
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
From the acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow, who “writes with verve and a keen eye” (The New York Times Book Review), comes a fresh and entertaining account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model T—the ugly, cranky, invincible machine that defined twentieth-century America.
Every...