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In The Book of Delights, one of today's most original literary voices offers up a genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year. The first nonfiction book from award-winning poet Ross Gay is a record of the small joys we often overlook in our busy lives. Among Gay's funny, poetic, philosophical delights: a friend's unabashed use of air quotes, cradling a tomato seedling aboard an airplane, the silent nod of acknowledgment between...
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A kaleidoscopic anthology of essays about the stories our bodies tell, and how we move within--and against--expectations of race, gender, health, and ability. Bodies are serious, irreverent, sexy, fragile, strong, political, and inseparable from our experiences and identities as human beings. Pushing the dialogue and confronting monolithic myths, this collection of essays tackles topics like weight, disability, desire, fertility, illness, and the...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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From beloved author Roxane Gay, comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between. Since the publication of Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society--state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women's rights, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy--alongside more individually personalized matters: can I tell my co-worker her perfume makes me sneeze?...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a master class on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song, and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal....
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of long-form essays on joy, in which the author turns his curious and poetic mind to everything from skateboarding and cover songs, basketball and race, dancing and academia, death and laughter, and, always, the garden and the natural world"--
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English
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The award-winning, nonagenarian New Yorker writer and editor presents a selection of essays, letters, light verse, book reviews and other pieces culled from the 10th decade of his vibrant life, including the acclaimed title work, in which he surveys the limits and discoveries of great and abundant age.
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Publisher
Forefront Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Peggy Rowe has been writing writing all of her adult life. In fact, she doesn’t know how not to write—even through those years of constant rejection from publishing houses. But between her tenacity and the encouragement of her family, Peggy’s breakthrough finally came—at the age of eighty! Vacuuming in the Nude is most likely her funniest prose to date as she shares her journey of attending myriad writers’ conferences and honing her ability...
10) Buy yourself the f*cking lilies: and other rituals to fix your life, from someone who's been there
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A Comedy Central vice president reveals the chronic anxiety and disadvantaged childhood that complicated her adult life, outlining riotously candid advice for growing up and learning to love oneself in healthy ways.
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Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After Kim and her husband decide to quit their jobs to travel around the world, they're given a yellow envelope containing a check and instructions to give the money away. As she distributes the gift to people she encounters along the way she learns that money does not have a thing to do with the capacity to give, but that giving is transformational.
12) Diagnosis
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
50 difficult medical cases that served as inspiration for an upcoming Netflix original series, including a vacationer who was poisoned after eating barracuda and a middle-aged woman with a purple streaked rash.
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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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A new collection of essays by the humorist author traces his offbeat world travel experiences, which involved surreal encounters with everything from French dentistry and Australian kookaburra eating habits to Beijing squat toilets and a wilderness Costco in North Carolina.
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Publisher
Godine
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In March 2019, the Viking Sky cruise ship was struck by a bomb cyclone in the Arctic Sea. Rocked by 50-foot swells and 40-knot gales, the ship lost power and began to drift straight toward the notoriously dangerous Hustadvika coast in Norway. This is the suspenseful, harrowing, funny, touching story by one passenger who contemplated death aboard that ship. Chaney Kwak is a travel writer used to all sorts of mishaps on the road, but this is a first...
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Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The author tells of her return to her Bulgarian border hometown and describes how this place, with its convergence of cultures, has been shaped by successive forces of history, from ancient times up through the current European refugee crisis.
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Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"If you think Joan Rivers said funny, outrageous, and ridiculous things ONSTAGE, wait 'til you read the funny, outrageous, and ridiculous things she said OFFSTAGE...things that will make you laugh out loud...and keep Melissa in therapy for the foreseeable future. The only thing my mother loved more than making people laugh was lying...or as she'd say, "embellishing." Her motto was: "Why let the truth ruin a good story?" This book contains some of...
18) Why not me?
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English
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The star presents a collection of personal essays, observations, fears, and advice on everything from prisoner fan mail to celebrity interactions.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"With its promise of escape from the strains of everyday life, the beach has a hold on the popular imagination as the ultimate paradise. In The Last Resort, Sarah Stodola dives into the psyche of the beachgoer and gets to the heart of what drives humans to seek out the sand. At the same time, she grapples with the darker realities of resort culture: strangleholds on local economies, reckless construction, erosion of beaches, weighty carbon footprints,...
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English
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A hilarious, heartfelt, and refreshingly honest memoir and New York Times bestseller by the beloved comedic actress known for her roles on Freaks and Geeks, Dawson's Creek, and Cougar Town who has become "the breakout star of Instagram stories...Imagine I Love Lucy mixed with a modern lifestyle guru" (The New Yorker).
There's no stopping Busy Philipps. From the time she was two and "aced out in her...
There's no stopping Busy Philipps. From the time she was two and "aced out in her...
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