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When in French
Love in a Second Language
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
A language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she moved to London and fell for a Frenchman named Olivier—a surprising turn of events for someone who didn’t have a passport until she was in college. But what does it mean to love someone...
The Noble Hustle
Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad
In 2011, Grantland magazine gave bestselling novelist Colson Whitehead $10,000 to play at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. It was the assignment of a lifetime, except for one hitch—he’d never played in a...
An Atheist in the FOXhole
A Liberal's Eight-Year Odyssey Inside the Heart of the Right-Wing Media
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
“Hilariously details the inner workings of the cable news network.” —The Daily Beast
After college, Joe Muto—a self-professed bleeding-heart, godless liberal—took an entry-level position at Fox News. Joe kept quiet about his political views and initially enjoyed the newsroom camaraderie....
What's Not to Love?
The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Perhaps all of Jonathan Ames’ problems–and the genesis of this hilarious book–can be traced back to the late onset of his puberty. After all it can’t be easy to be sixteen with a hairless “undistinguishable from that of a five year old’s.”
This wonderfully entertaining memoir...
Beautiful People
My Family and Other Glamorous Varmints
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
A wickedly funny memoir with echoes of David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs, Beautiful People (originally published in hardcover as Nasty) is now a BBC comedy hit series from the producer of Ab Fab and The Office.
Proclaimed "the most brilliant, brash thing in type" by Liz Smith,...
Writers Gone Wild
The Feuds, Frolics, and Follies of Literature's Great Adventurers, Drunkards, Lo vers, Iconoclasts, and Misanthropes
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Truth is stranger than fiction.
If you've imagined famous writers to be desk-bound drudges, think again. Writers Gone Wild rips back the (book) covers and reveals the seamy underside of the writing life.
Insightful, intriguing, and irresistibly addictive, Writers Gone Wild reveals such...
My Prizes
An Accounting
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
A gathering of brilliant and viciously funny recollections from one of the twentieth century’s most famous literary enfants terribles.
Written in 1980 but published here for the first time, these texts tell the story of the various farces that developed around the literary prizes Thomas Bernhard...
The Heming Way
How to Unleash the Booze-Inhaling, Animal-Slaughtering, War-Glorifying, Hairy-Chested Retro-Sexual Legend Within, Just Like Papa!
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Marty Beckerman's hilarious guide for the modern man to booze, battle, and bull-fight his way to becoming more like Hemingway
More than fifty years have passed since the death of Ernest Hemingway, history's ultimate man, and young males today—obsessed with Facebook, Twitter, and Playstation—know...
Himmlisch frei
Warum wir wieder mehr Transzendenz brauchen
Language: German
Release Date: March 2, 2019
Transzendenz ist in unserer wissenschaftsgläubigen Welt in Ungnade gefallen. Sie wird uns vom Mainstream als Esoterik oder Frömmelei vermiest. Doch wer nur noch ein materielles, eindimensionales Leben führt, ist leichter manipulierbar. Denn in der Transzendenz, dem Denken, das über uns selbst und das Irdische hinausgeht, liegt auch die Kraft zur Selbstbestimmung und zum Widerstand.
Now Dig This
The Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern, 1950–1995
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
An unforgettable chronicle of an era by one of America’s wildest—and most brilliant—comedic and literary minds
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Edited by Nile Southern and Josh Alan Friedman
Starting with his landing at the Battle of the Bulge, Terry Southern showed a knack for winding up in the...
Montaigne in Barn Boots
An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The beloved memoirist and bestselling author of Population: 485 reflects on the lessons he’s learned from his unlikely alter ego, French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne.
"The journey began on a gurney," writes Michael Perry, describing the debilitating kidney stone that...
by Mauro Sollazzo
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Un monologo critico e volgare, sarcastico ma anche realista. Un pensiero rivolto ad una parte di quella società bigotta o troppo tradizionalista. Retorica della politica e società Italiana può essere interpretato anche come un breve racconto di un individuo con lo sguardo attento su quelle abitudini...
The Book of Joe
The Life, Wit, and (Sometimes Accidental) Wisdom of Joe Biden
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The ultimate guide to the former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, filled with all the fun, all the inspiration, and none of the malarkey.
The aviators. The Amtrak. The Obama bromance. Few politicians are as iconic, or as beloved, as Joe Biden. Now, inThe Book...
West Winging It
An Un-presidential Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The West Wing meets The Office in this “funny, moving story about working in the White House that is a must read for anyone who misses having Barack Obama as President” (Dan Pfeiffer, cohost of Pod Save America), directly from his senior writer and former Deputy Director of Messaging.
West...