In David Sedaris’s world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz, and the National Enquirer, Sedaris’s collection of essays is a rollicking tour through …
Augusten and his partner finally take a much needed vacation alone at a "perfect" bed and breakfast. Only thing is, it's owned by a doll collector. The awkward intimacies of a little country inn provi…
Shelve The Wisdom Tooth (short story from Possible Side Effects)
Darkly funny and gleefully mean-spirited, Sellevision explores greed, obsession and third tier celebrity, in the world of a fictional home shopping network.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Augusten Burroughs's most provocative collection of true stories yet. From nicotine gum addiction to l…
Are you lacking direction in how to whip up a swanky soiree for lumberjacks? A dinner party for white-collar workers? A festive gathering for the grieving? Don't despair. Take a cue from entertaining …
Shelve I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
From the #1 bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Dry--a contagiously funny, heartwarming, shocking, twisted, and absolutely magical collection. True stories that give voice to the thoughts …
She thought she’d have more time. Laurie Notaro figured she had at least a few good years left. But no–it’s happened. She has officially lost her marbles. From the kid at the pet-food store checkout l…
Shelve We Thought You Would Be Prettier: True Tales of the Dorkiest Girl Alive
A bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess from an award-winning humorist. Whether David Rakoff's contrasting the elegance of one of the last flights of the supersonic Concorde with the good…
Shelve Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa …
America's most delightfully unconventional hostess and the bestselling author of I Like You delivers a new book that will forever change the world of crafting. According to Amy Sedaris, it's often bee…
From This American Life alum David Rakoff comes a hilarious collection that single-handedly raises self-deprecation to an art form. Whether impersonating Sigmund Freud in a department store window dur…
You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinar…
From her Academy Award—nominated screenplays to her bestselling fiction and essays, Nora Ephron is one of America’s most gifted, prolific, and versatile writers. In this classic collection of magazine…
Whether or not you've had time to write your own reviews, here's a chance to review your entire 2019 reading and post it under this title so that others can see what your reading year was like. Togeth…
“As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. He buried it and told me I must never tell. It was the only thing we’d ever done together as fathe…
Celebrated in history and song, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company--the Rock Island Line--was a powerful Midwestern railroad that once traversed thirteen states with its fast freigh…
Shelve Rock Island Requiem: The Collapse of a Mighty Fine Line
Manson The persona of Charles Manson and his bizarre sway over the Family remains riveting a quarter century down the line. Manson is a gripping account of one of the most chilling and fascinating cri…
Shelve Manson: The Unholy Trail of Charlie and the Family
If you think Duel in the Sun was a great movie, we ask, have you seen it lately? For those who believe that great stars equal great films, we offer you Fatal Attraction. And for anyone who insights th…
At The Age Of Twenty-One, Leslie Van Houten was sentenced to death, along with Charles Manson and his other disciples, for the infamous murder rampage spanning two nights in August 1969. Leslie, who w…
Shelve The Long Prison Journey of Leslie Van Houten: Life Beyond the Cult
In the early 1950s, Lynette Fromme's world was more or less a paint-by-numbers existence that millions of other suburban children were living in Southern California. Red-haired, freckled, and convivia…
Shelve Squeaky: The Life and Times of Lynette Alice Fromme
Summing up 25 years of Nikolas Schreck's research into the Charles Manson phenomenon, this Book of Revelations illuminates unknown dimensions of Manson as philosopher, musician, Gnostic mystic, Mafia …
Shelve The Manson File: Myth and Reality of an Outlaw Shaman
An instinctive and magnificent storyteller, Somerset Maugham was one of the most popular and successful writers of his time. He published seventy-eight books -- including the undisputed classics Of Hu…
Το Eργοστάσιο των μολυβιών είναι ένα μυθιστόρημα για την επανάσταση και τους επαναστάτες. Επίσης είναι ένα μυθιστόρημα για τα τρομερά γεγονότα που συγκλόνισαν τον κόσμο, και για άλλα, λιγότερο τρομερά…
In this singular collection, John D'Agata takes a literary tour of lyric essays written by the masters of the craft. Beginning with 1975 and John McPhee's ingenious piece, "The Search for Marvin Garde…
