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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorYou Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning
Celia Rivenbark · 242 pages
A collection of humorous essays in which Celia Rivenbark shares her views on various aspects of life in the South, discussing perfect school attendance, Clay Aiken, Jesus action figures, Gwyneth Paltrow, and other topics. Includes recipes.
Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You
Lewis Grizzard · 211 pages
I Totally Meant to Do That
Jane Borden · 230 pages
The author's musings on the intersections of and altercations between Southern hospitality and Gotham cool.
Pulphead
John Jeremiah Sullivan · 392 pages
"A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America's cultural landscape--from high to low to lower than low--by the award-winning young star of the literary nonfiction world In Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on an exhilarating tour of our popular, unpopular, and at times completely forgotten culture. Simultaneously channeling the gonzo energy of Hunter S. Thompson and the wit and insight o
The Liberal Redneck Manifesto: Draggin' Dixie Outta the Dark
Trae Crowder, Drew Morgan, Corey Ryan Forrester · 344 pages
"The Liberal Rednecks--a three-man stand-up comedy group doing scathing political satire--celebrate all that's good about the South while leading the Redneck Revolution and standing proudly blue in a sea of red. Smart, hilarious, and incisive, the Liberal Rednecks confront outdated traditions and intolerant attitudes, tackling everything people think they know about the South--the good, the bad, t
My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South
Rick Bragg · 264 pages
Suck Your Stomach in and Put Some Color On!: What Southern Mamas Tell Their Daughters that the Rest of Y'all Should Know Too
Shellie Rushing Tomlinson · 304 pages
The host of All Things Southern shares the sass and strength of Southern mamas in this spunky guide to life.In this humorous handbook, Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, host of All Things Southern, reveals the all-important lessons Southern Mamas teach their daughters. Readers will discover why blue eye shadow is trashy and learn to interpret regional dialect like the Southern Mama APB, a bulletin transl
1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories
Chris Rose · 384 pages
Dimestore: A Writer's Life
Lee Smith · 212 pages
A "book about Smith's process and her life, first as a Southern mountain child and, later, as the parent of a schizophrenic child...Despite being surrounded by loving family and being blessed with an active imagination, Lee copes with a mentally ill mother. Later, her son's mental illness and early death brings her to the breaking point but she is saved by her writing"--Lois Gross for LibraryReads
My Reading Life
Pat Conroy · 331 pages
Bestselling author Pat Conroy acknowledges the books that have shaped him and celebrates the profound effect reading has had on his life.
South and West: From a Notebook
Joan Didion · 126 pages
Two excerpts from never-before-seen notebooks offer insights into the author's literary mind and process and includes notes on her Sacramento upbringing, her life in the Gulf states, her views on prominent locals and her experiences during a formative "Rolling Stone" assignment.
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Flannery O'Connor · 237 pages
The essays and articles in this volume are concerned mainly with the art of fiction--its quality, in regional writing; its nature and its aims; and its relatino to the writer's religion.
It Must've Been Something I Ate: The Return of the Man Who Ate Everything
Jeffrey Steingarten · 448 pages
In this outrageous and delectable new volume, the Man Who Ate Everything proves that he will do anything to eat everything. That includes going fishing for his own supply of bluefin tuna belly; nearly incinerating his oven in pursuit of the perfect pizza crust, and spending four days boning and stuffing three different fowl--into each other-- to produce the Cajun specialty called "turducken." It M
Blacklisted from the PTA
Lela Davidson · 243 pages
"Blacklisted by the PTA is an irreverent look at motherhood and the modern family. From the high chair to a vinyl restaurant booth on date night, Lela Davidson has captured life on the cul-de-sac with a husband, two kids, and the occasional pet. Whether failing at cloth diaper origami or smug in knowledge that her children have never consumed a PopTart, Lela assures parents they are not alone, and
Signposts in a Strange Land: Essays
Walker Percy · 428 pages
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
Alice Walker · 397 pages
Silent Bob Speaks: The Selected Writings
Kevin Smith · 352 pages
In this bawdy, over-the-top rant-fest, screenwriter and director Kevin Smith waxes rhapsodic and obnoxious on everything from his platonic infatuation with Ben Affleck to his bloodcurdling hatred of "Greasy" Reese Witherspoon, from his shocking diagnosis of morbid obesity to the simple pleasures of that cradle of civilization known as New Jersey.
I'm Your Biggest Fan: Awkward Encounters and Assorted Misadventures in Celebrity Journalism
Kate Coyne · 246 pages
"Hilarious essays about awkward run-ins with celebrities, the nature of celebrity, and what it says about our culture, by the Executive Editor of People Magazine. --Provided by the publisher"--
Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!
Scott Adams · 368 pages
The creator of Dilbert ventures into hilarious new territoryEveryone knows Scott Adams as the king of workplace humor. No office is complete without a few Dilbert strips on the wall. And if you compare a VP to the Pointy-Haired Boss, no further description is necessary.But why should a humorist stick to the workplace when there are so many other great subjects to explore? What about politics? Reli
Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Goodbye!
Cynthia Heimel · 192 pages
Actually, Nevermind
Taylor Tomlinson
In a collection of essays, the comedian reflects upon her life as she approaches the same age her mother was when she died. Read by the author. 5 hours, 31 minutes unabridged.
For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards
Jen Hatmaker · 224 pages
The popular writer, blogger, and television personality reveals with humor and style how Jesus' extravagant grace is the key to dealing with life's biggest challenge: people. The majority of our joys, struggles, thrills, and heartbreaks relate to people, beginning first with ourselves and then the people we came from, married, birthed, live by, live for, go to church with, don't like, don't und
Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters
John Waters · 144 pages
A collection of sharply funny, deliberately outrageous essays, filmmaker John Waters turns his eye toward the strange, the tacky, and the defiantly unconventional corners of American culture. With the same irreverence that made his films cult classics, Waters writes about celebrity oddities, artistic misfits, personal fixations, and the joy of bad taste. Blending memoir, cultural criticism, and pu