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Include books by the same authorAmericana: Dispatches from the New Frontier
Hampton Sides · 450 pages
Fear 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.
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
Tom Wolfe · 153 pages
Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness
Jon Ronson · 256 pages
A collection of Jon's "Guardian" features, reworked and with new material, with a common theme: the ways in which people get themselves into wholly irrational bubbles, within which all manner of lunacy makes perfect sense. In Jon's previous two books, "Them" and "The Men Who Stare at Goats", the nuttiness took place a long way from everyday life - on US military bases, or at Jihad training camps,
The New Journalism
Norman Mailer, Nicholas Tomalin, Joe McGinniss, George Plimpton, James Mills, John Gregory Dunne, John Sack, Joan Didion, 'Adam Smith', Rex Reed, Robert Christgau, Gay Talese, Richard Goldstein, Michael Herr, Truman Capote, Joe Eszterhas, Terry Southern, Hunter S. Thompson, Barbara L. Goldsmith, Gar · 394 pages
Selections from Rex Reed, Gay Talese, Richard Goldstein, Michael Herr, Truman Capote, Joe Eszterhas, Terry Southern, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Nicholas Tomalin, Tom Wolfe, Barbara L. Goldsmith, Joe McGinniss, George Plimpton, James Mills, John Gregory Dunne, John Sack, Joan Didion, "Adam Smith," Robert Christgau, and Garry Wills.
Crime Beat: Stories Of Cops And Killers
Michael Connelly · 304 pages
Beauty and the Inferno.
Roberto Saviano · 280 pages
Roberto Saviano is best known for his work on the Italian mafia, but Beauty and the Inferno also tackles universal themes with great insight and humanity, with urgency, and often with anger. This important collection includes essays on the legacy of the earthquake at L'Aquila, a town at risk of becoming overrun by mafia; on boxing as an escape route; on the life of the legendary South African jazz
Wallflower at the Orgy
Nora Ephron · 208 pages
A collection of interviews of American pop culture icons of the 1960s and 1970s offers revealing profiles of such notables as Helen Gurley Brown, Jacqueline Susann, Julia Child, Ayn Rand, Craig Claiborne, Bill Blass, and Mike Nichols.
Stranger than Fiction
Chuck Palahniuk · 244 pages
From the bestselling author of Fight Club and Diary, a collection of essays and journalistic pieces that prove that real life has imagination beaten cold in the strangeness and wonder departmentsChuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise Stranger Than Fiction, his first nonfiction collection, prove just how different, in ways both highly
Once There Was a War
John Steinbeck · 232 pages
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Nikole Hannah-Jones · 590 pages
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction
Joan Didion · 1,141 pages
"Slouching Towards Bethlehem captures the counterculture of the sixties, its mood and lifestyle, as symbolized by California, Joan Baez, Haight-Ashbury. The White Album covers the revolutionary politics and the "contemporary wasteland" of the late sixties and early seventies, in pieces on the Manson family, the Black Panthers, and Hollywood. Salvador is a riveting look at the social and political
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
Malcolm Gladwell · 410 pages
Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg
Rick Bragg · 282 pages
Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire
Matt Taibbi · 288 pages
"Smells Like Dead Elephants brings together notorious journalistic agitator Matt Taibbi's most incisive and hilarious work from his column in Rolling Stone. Written during a period in our history with no shortage of outrage to compel Taibbi's pen, these pieces paint a shocking portrait of our government at work, or rarely working. But Taibbi doesn't just hit inside the Beltway, he gets into the ac
The New Kings of Nonfiction
Mark Bowden, Bill Buford, Malcolm Gladwell, Jack Hitt, Chuck Klosterman, James McManus, Susan Orlean, Michael Pollan, Lee Sandlin, Dan Savage, Coco Henson Scales, David Foster Wallace, Lawrence Weschler · 455 pages
The New Kings of Nonfiction heralds a collection of stories - some well-known, some slightly obscure - capturing some of the best storytelling of this golden age of non-fiction. These pieces on subjects as diverse as teenage white-collar criminals, buying a cow. Saddam Hussein, drunken British soccer culture, and how we know everyone in our Rolodexes, are meant to mesmerize and inspire. The Writ
Fire
Sebastian Junger · 224 pages
"For readers and viewers of The Perfect Storm, opening this new work by Sebastian Junger will be like stepping off the deck of the Andrea Gail and into the inferno of a fire burning out of control in the steep canyons of Idaho. Here is the same meticulous prose brought to bear on the inner workings of a terrifying elemental force: here is a cast of characters risking everything in an effort to bri
Justice
Dominick Dunne · 433 pages
Nearly a third of the book consists of his reporting on the O.J. Simpson trial. Also includes material on Vicki Morgan, Claus von Bulow, Edmund Safra, and the Martha Moxley/Michael Skakel cases.
The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession
David Grann · 352 pages
Acclaimed New Yorker writer and author of the breakout debut bestseller The Lost City of Z, David Grann offers a collection of spellbinding narrative journalism. Whether he's reporting on the infiltration of the murderous Aryan Brotherhood into the U.S. prison system, tracking down a chameleon con artist in Europe, or riding in a cyclone- tossed skiff with a scientist hunting the elusive giant squ
By the Lake of Sleeping Children
Luis Alberto Urrea · 187 pages
Luis Alberto Urrea's first book, Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border, was a haunting and unprecedented look at what life is like for those living on the Mexican side of the border, eking out only the barest of lives not far from the white sands and coral reefs of Southern California. His poignant, widely acclaimed account of the struggle of these people to survive amid the
The Assassin from Apricot City: Reportage from Turkey
Witold Szablowski · 210 pages
The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life
Ryszard Kapuscinski · 325 pages
"Ryszard Kapuscinski Arrived in Africa in 1957, at the beginning of the end of colonial rule - the "sometimes dramatic and painful, sometimes enjoyable and jubilant" rebirth of a continent. The Shadow of the Sun sums up the author's experiences ("the record of a forty-year marriage") in this place that became the central obsession of his remarkable career.". "From the hopeful years of independenc
Gottland: Mostly True Stories from Half of Czechoslovakia
Mariusz Szczygiel · 248 pages
One of Europe's most preeminent investigative journalists travels to the Czech Republic--the Czech half of the former Czechoslovakia, the land that brought us Kafka--to explore the surreal fictions and the extraordinary reality of its twentieth century.