 | The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life
Release Date: July 2, 2002“I’ve changed a bit since high school. Back then I said no to using and selling drugs. I washed on a normal basis and still had good credit.”Introducing Laurie Notaro, the leader of the Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club. Every day she fearlessly rises from bed to defeat the evil machinations of dolts, dimwits, and creepy boyfriends—and that’s before she even puts on a bra.For the past ten years, Notaro has been entertaining Phoenix newspaper readers with her wildly amusing autobiographical exploits and unique life experiences. Sh...
 |  | The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany
Release Date: October 25, 2005In this stunning assemblage of words and images, novelist and avid birdwatcher Graeme Gibson has crafted an extraordinary tribute to the venerable relationship between humans and birds.Birds have ever been the symbols of our highest aspirations. As divine messengers, symbols of our yearning for the heavens, or avatars of glorious song and colour, they have stirred our imaginations from the moment we first looked into the sky. Whether as the Christian dove, or Quetzalcoatl—the Aztec Plumed Serpent—or in Plato’s vision of the human soul growin...
|  | The Best Creative Nonfiction (Vol. 3)
Publication Date: August 3, 2009| Series: Best Creative Nonfiction (Book 3) “Intelligent but accessible, and oftenpoignant . . . [by] the biggest talents on theessay and blog beat.” —PublishersWeekly (on Vol. 2)Anyone still asking, “What is creativenonfiction?” will find the answer in thiscollection of artfully crafted, true stories.Selected by Lee Gutkind, the “godfather behindcreative nonfiction,” and the staff ofCreative Nonfiction, thesestories—ranging from immersion journalism tointensely personal essays—illustrate the genre...
|  | Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps (American Lives)
Publication Date: March 1, 2004| Series: American Lives Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska—an area known as the Bohemian Alps. Nothing is too big or too small for his attention. Memories of his grandmother’s cooking are juxtaposed with reflections about the old-fashioned outhouse on his property. When casting his eye on social progress, Kooser reminds us that the closing of local schools, thoughtless county weed control, and irresponsible housing development destroy more than just the view.In ...
|  | The Half-Known World: On Writing Fiction
Release Date: July 22, 2008| ISBN-10: 1555975046 | ISBN-13: 978-1555975043A rigorous examination of the workings of fiction by the novelist Robert Boswell, “one of America’s finest writers” (Tom Perrotta) Robert Boswell has been writing, reading, and teaching literature for more than twenty years. In this sparkling collection of essays, he brings this vast experience and a keen critical eye to bear on craft issues facing literary writers. Examples from masters such as Leo Tolstoy, Flannery O’Connor, and Alice Munro illustrate this engaging discussion of w...
|  | Silk Parachute
Release Date: March 1, 2011A WONDROUS NEW BOOK OF MCPHEE’S PROSE PIECES—IN MANY ASPECTS HIS MOST PERSONAL IN FOUR DECADES The brief, brilliant essay “Silk Parachute,” which first appeared in The New Yorker a decade ago, has become John McPhee’s most anthologized piece of writing. In the nine other pieces here—highly varied in length and theme—McPhee ranges with his characteristic humor and intensity through lacrosse, long-exposure view-camera photography, the weird foods he has sometimes been served in the course of his reportorial travels, a ...
|  | I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams
Publication Date: April 6, 2012 From the preface by SF legend Bruce Sterling: "Dery...brandishes a Diogenes lantern as the the smoke thickens on every side. ... Beset with Google erudition, [these essays] tackle a dizzying set of topics--even within the essays, within the very sentences, there are dizzying arrays of topics. ... He's very good at going into areas of culture you wouldn't care to visit yourself, and performing autopsies. He assesses each bone and organ in detail. Not in acrowd-pleasing way--he doesn't prettify it, culture-industrialize it andbuild a gift-shop at the door. ...
|  | The World's Last Night: And Other Essays
Publication Date: November 4, 2002| Series: Harvest Book (Book 260) “We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.”In these seven witty, lucid, and tough-minded essays, the famous, infamous Screwtape makes a special appearance, proposing a toast that brilliantly explores the many opportunities for exploiting evil in the world. Lewis also considers the evidence for whether and how prayer works, plays with th...
|  | Grantland Issue 2
Publication Date: April 10, 2012Grantland Quarterly is a collaboration between McSweeney's and Grantland, the popular website founded and edited by Bill Simmons. It features the best long-form sports and culture writing from the site as well as new print exclusives, delivered in a lavishly designed, full-color book. Issue 2 has a dust jacket that unfolds to reveal a double-sided poster with an intricate, gorgeous piece of original art on one side, and, on the reverse, a reprint of the rare 1970s poster of George "The Ice Man" Gervin from Nike.Issue 2 also includes:-Bill Simmons writing about...
|  | Deadline Artists: America's Greatest Newspaper Columns
Release Date: September 21, 2011America's story has always been best told in its newspapers.From the local and mundane-crime blotters, crop prices, and Sundaysermons-to the Federalist Papers and Watergate, the press has played anoutsized role in our nation's culture and history. Newspapers in Americahave always been the crucible where our passions and debates are tried bythe only judge this nation respects: public opinion. At a time of greattransition in the news media, Deadline Artists celebrates therelevance of the newspaper column through the simple power of excellentwriting. It is an ins...
|  | You Tell Your Dog First
Release Date: November 6, 2012You Tell Your Dog First… About the date you just had…about the questionable results of a medical test…about the good and the bad…about everything. For years, award-winning author Alison Pace was a dog person without a dog. And then, she got Carlie—a feisty and fluffy West Highland white terrier. She could weed out bad boyfriends with a sniff of her button-black nose and win the hearts of lifelong friends with an adoring gaze. Suddenly, Alison had a constant companion and confidante, who went with her on long morning ra...
|  | Once There Was a War (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: August 28, 2007| Series: Penguin Classics Nobel laureate John Steinbeck's bracing from-the-frontlines account of World War II-now with a new cover and introduction In 1943 John Steinbeck was on assignment for The New York Herald Tribune, writing from Italy and North Africa, and from England in the midst of the London blitz. In his dispatches he focuses on the human-scale effect of the war, portraying everyone from the guys in a bomber crew to Bob Hope on his USO tour and even fighting alongside soldiers behind enemy lines. Taken together, these writings create an indelible port...
|  | Literary Nonfiction: Learning by Example
Publication Date: September 27, 2001| ISBN-10: 0195138449 | ISBN-13: 978-0195138443Literary Nonfiction: Learning by Example examines the principles and techniques of the genre by taking a close, analytical look at outstanding contemporary essays by fifteen highly accomplished writers. Featuring examples of memoir, profile, literary journalism, medical reporting, and travel writing, it includes selections by Madeleine Blais, Tim Cahill, James Conaway, Joan Didion, David Finkel, Jon Franklin, Tom Hallman, Jr., Walt Harrington, Tracy Kidder, Jane Kramer, John McPhee, Michael Paterniti, Mike...
|  | Power Politics (Second Edition)
Publication Date: April 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 0896086682 | ISBN-13: 978-0896086685| Edition: 2 Arundhati Roy —"India’s most impassioned critic of globalization" (New York Times)—has expanded the compelling first edition of Power Politics with two new essays on the U.S. war on terrorism. A Book Sense 76 choice for November/December 2001 and Los Angeles Times "Discoveries" selection, Power Politics challenges the idea that only experts can speak out on such urgent matters as nuclear war, the privatization of India’s power supply by U.S.-based energy companies, and t...
|  | Tree and Leaf
Publication Date: February 5, 2001Repackaged to feature Tolkien's own painting of the Tree of Amalion, this collection includes his famous essay, 'On Fairy-stories' and the story that exemplifies this, 'Leaf by Niggle', together with the poem 'Mythopoeia' and the verse drama, 'The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth', which tells of the events following the disastrous Battle of Maldon.Fairy-stories are not just for children, as anyone who has read Tolkien will know. In his essay On Fairy-Stories, Tolkien discusses the nature of fairy-tales and fantasy and rescues the genre from those who would relegate...
|  | Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
Release Date: February 4, 1997In these ten intertwined essays, one of our most provocative young novelists proves that she is just as stylish and outrageous an art critic. For when Jeanette Winterson looks at works as diverse as the Mona Lisa and Virginia Woolf's The Waves, she frees them from layers of preconception and restores their power to exalt and unnerve, shock and transform us."Art Objects is a book to be admired for its effort to speak exorbitantly, urgently and sometimes beautifully about art and about our individual and collective need for serious art."--Los Angeles Tim...
|  | Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu: John Updike on Ted Williams
Release Date: April 29, 2010On September 28, 1960-a day that will live forever in the hearts of fans-Red Sox slugger Ted Williams stepped up to the plate for his last at-bat in Fenway Park. Seizing the occasion, he belted a solo home run- a storybook ending to a storied career. In the stands that afternoon was 28-year-old John Updike, inspired by the moment to make his lone venture into the field of sports reporting. More than just a matchless account of that fabled final game, Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu is a brilliant evocation of Williams' competitive spirit, an intensity of dedication that st...
|  | Orthodoxy (Hendrickson Christian Classics)
Publication Date: June 1, 2006| Series: Hendrickson Christian Classics Hardcover Classics at Paperback Prices!"One of the top 10 Christian books of the twentieth century." —Christianity Today Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) has been called "the ablest and most exuberant proponent of orthodox Christianity of his time." One of the twentieth century’s most thoughtful authors, he greatly influenced countless Christian writers including C.S. Lewis and others. Described as one of 10 "indispensable spiritual classics" of the past 1500 years by Publishers Weekly, Chesterton ...
|  | The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays
Publication Date: May 15, 2012Award-winning editor Tara L. Masih put out a call in 2007 for Intercultural Essays dealing with the subjects of "culture, race, and a sense of place." The prizewinners are gathered for the first time in a ground-breaking anthology that explores many facets of culture not previously found under one cover. The powerful, honest, thoughtful voices--Native American, African American, Asian, European, Jewish, White--speak daringly on topics not often discussed in the open, on subjects such as racism, anti-Semitism, war, self-identity, gender, societal ...
|  | Count on Me: Tales of Sisterhoods and Fierce Friendships
Release Date: September 4, 2012Friendships can bring us peace, fill the emotional shortcomings in our romantic relationships, and help us remember what lies deep inside every one of us. For more than twenty-five years, the international organization Las Comadres Para Las Americas has been bringing together thousands of Latinas to count on, lean on, help, and advise one another. Comadre is a powerful term. It encompasses the most important relationships that exist between women: best friends, confidantes, coworkers, advisers, neighbors, godmothers to one’s children, and even midwives. &...
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