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Drinking, Smoking and Screwing: Great Writers on Good Times
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Include books by the same authorFear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson · 592 pages
An anthology of top-selected "Rolling Stone" articles offers insight into both the late Thompson's early career and the magazine's fledgling years, in a volume that includes the stories of his infamous Freak Party sheriff campaign and his observations about the Bush-versus-Kerry presidential rivalry.
There's No Toilet Paper . . . on the Road Less Traveled: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure
Doug Lansky · 190 pages
A collection of stories in which various well-known writers share their humorous and sometimes bizarre travel experiences.
Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure
Tim Cahill · 228 pages
My Little Red Book
Meg Cabot, Erica Jong, Gloria Steinem, Cecily von Ziegesar, Megan McCafferty, Tamora Pierce, Lola Gerhard, Henrietta Wittenberg, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Krista Madsen · 225 pages
My Little Red Book is an anthology of stories about first periods, collected from women of all ages from around the world. The accounts range from lighthearted (the editor got hers while waterskiing in a yellow bathing suit) to heart-stopping (a first period discovered just as one girl was about to be strip-searched by the Nazis). The contributors include well-known women writers (Meg Cabot, Erica
My Favorite Year: A Collection of Football Writing
Nick Hornby, D.J. Taylor, Huw Richards, Chris Pierson, Roddy Doyle, Harry Ritchie, Harry Pearson, Olly Wicken, Graham Brack, Matt Nation, Ed Horton, Don Watson · 288 pages
The Moth
Catherine Burns · 407 pages
In the tradition of book anthologies created from public radio programs such as StoryCorps and This I Believe, THE MOTH collects the best storytelling moments--most in print here for the very first time--straight from their archive of more than 3000 shows since the first Moth Evening in 1997.
There's Probably No God: the Atheists' Guide to Christmas
Ariane Sherine · 352 pages
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker
David Remnick, Henry Finder · 528 pages
PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality
Carol Queen, Lawrence Schimel · 199 pages
PoMo: short for PostModern; in th earts, a movement following after and in direct reaction to Modernism; culturally, an outlook that acknowledges diverse and complex points of view. PoMoSexual: the queer erotic reality beyond the boundaries of gender, separatism, and essentialist notions of sexual orientation.
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: 101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning
Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Kimberly Kirberger
This first batch of Chicken Soup for Teens consists of 101 stories every teenager can relate to and learn from & mdash;without feeling criticized or judged. This edition contains important lessons on the nature of friendship and love, the importance of belief in the future, and the value of respect for oneself and others, and much more.
A Passion for Books: A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books
Rob Kaplan · 369 pages
The Best American Travel Writing 2013
Elizabeth Gilbert · 233 pages
Gifted authors don't just tell us about unique or out-of-the-way places; they take us to them, show us what they look like, show us who their people are, and make us feel like we've experienced them.
Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey
Anastasia M. Ashman, Jennifer Eaton Gokmen · 293 pages
An anthology of personal writings in which twenty-nine women who have lived in Turkey over the last forty years chronicle their experiences and share their impressions of the country.
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant : Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone
Jenni Ferrari-Adler · 280 pages
A delightful and unexpected collection of pieces by writers, foodies, and others-including Nora Ephron, Marcella Hazan, and Ann Patchett-on the distinctive experiences of cooking for one and dining alone.If, sooner or later, we all face the prospect of eating alone, then Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant provides the perfect set of instructions. In this unique collection, twenty-six writers an
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
Beverly Guy-Sheftall · 577 pages
An anthology of African American Feminist thought.
Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
Larry Smith, Rachel Fershleiser · 232 pages
A collection of six-word memoirs, contributed by both famous and obscure writers, records the human experience in works that are by turn whimsical, poignant, and bizarre, by such authors as Joyce Carol Oates and Joan Rivers.
Apocalypse Culture II
Colin Wilson, George Petros, Chris Campion, Robert Sterling, David Woodard, Dan Kelly, Wes Thomas, Crispin Hellion Glover, Boyd Rice, Kadmon, Chad Hensley, Theodore J. Kaczynski, James Shelby Downard, Rod Dickinson, Steve Speer, Sarita Vendetta, Ghazi Barakat, Kristan Lawson, Issei Sagawa, Rosemary · 468 pages
Boys Like Her: Transfictions
Taste This, Anna Camilleri, Ivan E. Coyote, Lyndell Montgomery, Zoe Eakle · 224 pages
Boys like her us an adrenaline-rush road movie of young queer life and gender transformation. First stop, the Canada-U.S. border, four young queers in a borrowed car pulled over, notebooks, make-up, clothes and violin flung out on the concrete. The car is checked for drugs, contraband, fruit - and declared clean. The four in a borrowed car are smuggling dangerous goods. But what they're smuggling
Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Thomas Merton, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Meister Eckhart, John Donne, T.S. Eliot, J.B. Phillips, Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, Sylvia Plath, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, Henri Nouwen, Bernard of Clairvaux, Kathleen Norris, Karl Rahner, Isaac Penington, Madeleine L'Engle, Alfred Del · 345 pages
Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme
Ivan E. Coyote, Zena Sharman · 312 pages
In the summer of 2009, butch writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote and gender researcher and femme dynamo Zena Sharman wrote down a wish-list of their favourite queer authors; they wanted to continue and expand the butch-femme conversation. The result is *Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme*. The stories in these pages resist simple definitions. The people in these stories defy reductive stereotype
What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty
John Brockman · 272 pages
More than one hundred of the world's leading thinkers write about things they believe in, despite the absence of concrete proofScientific theory, more often than not, is born of bold assumption, disparate bits of unconnected evidence, and educated leaps of faith. Some of the most potent beliefs among brilliant minds are based on supposition alone -- yet that is enough to push those minds toward ma
I Just Want to Pee Alone: A Collection of Humorous Essays by Kick Ass Mom Bloggers
Bethany Meyer, Rebecca Gallagher · 194 pages
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
Christopher Hitchens · 499 pages
Presents excerpts on the subject of religion from the writings of such notable non-believers as John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, Albert Einstein, Richard Dawkins, and Salman Rushdie.