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Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies: On Myths, Morons, Free Speech, Football, and Assorted Absurdities
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Include books by the same authorHey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness
Hunter S. Thompson · 259 pages
With "Hey Rube," Thompson has put together his most hilarious, thought-provoking, genuine, outlandish, and highly irreverent writings from his recent career as columnist on ESPN's popular Page 2. This look at Gonzo journalism in his most organic form includes some "extra" columns that have never before been published.
The Enlightened Cyclist: Commuter Angst, Dangerous Drivers, and Other Obstacles on the Path to Two-Wheeled Trancendence
BikeSnobNYC, Eben Weiss
Fates Worse Than Death
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 240 pages
“Here we have a collection of essays and speeches by me, with breezy autobiographical commentary serving as connective tissue and splints and bandages. Here we go again with real life and opinions made to look like one big, preposterous animal not unlike an invention by Dr. Seuss… —Kurt Vonnegut, from Fates Worse Than Death” From penguinrandomhouse.com
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Chuck Klosterman · 258 pages
"Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no one has done it quite like Chuck Klosterman. With an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and an almost effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter, Klosterman attacks the entire spectrum of postmodern America: reality TV, Internet porn, Pamela Anderson, literary Jesus freaks, and the real differen
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
Sarah Vowell · 197 pages
A collection of personal stories in which Sarah Vowell examines various aspects of her own life while chronicling the experiences she had while traveling throughout the United States.
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
David Foster Wallace · 353 pages
A collection of stories from David Foster Wallace is occasion to celebrate. These stories -- which have been prominently serialized in Harper's, Esquire, the Paris Review, and elsewhere -- explore intensely immediate states of mind, with the attention to voice and the extraordinary creative daring that have won Wallace his reputation as one of the most talented fiction writer of his generation.Amo
How to Be a Woman
Caitlin Moran · 313 pages
Though they have the vote and the Pill and haven't been burned as witches since 1727, life isn't exactly a stroll down the catwalk for modern women. They are beset by uncertainties and questions: Why are they supposed to get Brazilians? Why do bras hurt? Why the incessant talk about babies? And do men secretly hate them? Caitlin Moran interweaves provocative observations on women's lives with l
Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut
P.J. O'Rourke · 341 pages
"No time left for pamphleting and leafleting, picketing and petitioning, talking and walking around. Time to TRASH THE STATE!" Abbie Hoffman? Huey Newton? No, it's P. J. O'Rourke, circa 1970. Now America's most provocative (and conservative) satirist - O'Rourke was at one time a raving pinko, with the scab on his bleeding heart to prove it. Through twenty-five years of his writing, Age and Guile
The Braindead Megaphone
George Saunders · 257 pages
George Saunders's first foray into nonfiction is comprised of essays on literature, travel, and politics. At the core of this unique collection are Saunders's travel essays based on his trips to seek out the mysteries of the "Buddha Boy" of Nepal; to attempt to indulge in the extravagant pleasures of Dubai; and to join the exploits of the minutemen at the Mexican border. Saunders expertly navigate
A Nation Worth Ranting About
Rick Mercer · 284 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
Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines
Bill Hicks · 312 pages
Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries
Jon Ronson · 471 pages
Ronson investigates the strange things we are willing to believe in, from lifelike robots programmed with the personalities of our loved ones to indigo children to hyper successful spiritual healers. He looks at ordinary lives that take on extraordinary perspectives, for instance a pop singer whose greatest passion is the coming alien invasion, and the scientist designated to greet those aliens wh
Brain Droppings
George Carlin · 258 pages
The thinking person's comic who uses words as weapons, George Carlin shares all-new, cutting-edge opinion and observational humor in Brain Droppings. Filled with thoughts, musings, questions, lists, beliefs, curiosities, monologues, assertions, assumptions, and other verbal ordeals, Brain Droppings is infectiously funny. Carlin unleashes his opinions on "People Who Should Be Phased Out" (guys with
Sports Illustrated: Hate Mail from Cheerleaders and Other Adventures from the Life of Reilly
Rick Reilly · 319 pages
Gathers one hundred pieces written by the "Sports Illustrated" writer over the past six years, covering such topics as rants against high-profile athletic programs, profiles of sports greats, and personal reminiscences.
How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter · 432 pages
Welcome to the world of Ann Coulter. With her monumental bestsellers Treason, Slander, and High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Coulter has become the most recognized and talked-about conservative intellectual in years--and certainly the most controversial. Now, in How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must), which is sure to ignite impassioned debate, she offers her most comprehensive analysis of the America
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
Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down
Dave Barry · 247 pages
One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko
Mike Royko · 298 pages
With the incisive pen of a newspaperman and the compassionate soul of a poet, Mike Royko was a Chicago institution who wrote a daily column for nearly thirty-five years - first for the Chicago Daily News, then the Sun-Times, and finally the Tribune - and his Pulitzer Prize-winning commentary was syndicated in more the 600 newspapers nationwide. Pretension and hypocrisy were his targets, and his we
New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer
Bill Maher · 230 pages
Womenagerie and Other Tales from the Front
Jessica Zafra · 181 pages