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Theft by Finding: Diaries
DAVID SEDARIS · LITTLE
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From bestselling author David Sedaris, for the first time in print: selections from the diaries that are the source of his remarkable autobiographical essays.For nearly four decades, David Sedaris has faithfully kept a diary in which he records his thoughts and observations on the odd and funny... |
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Naturally Tan: A Memoir
Tan France · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the stars of Netflix's overnight sensation Queer Eye, Tan France's memoir Naturally Tan has his signature wit, style, and tells the origin story of the one of the few openly gay, South Asian men on television.
In this heartfelt, funny, touching memoir,... |
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Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure
AMY KAUFMAN · Dutton
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The first definitive, unauthorized, behind-the-scenes cultural history of the Bachelor franchise, America's favorite guilty pleasure
For fifteen years and thirty-five seasons, the Bachelor franchise has been a mainstay in American TV viewers' lives. Since it premiered in 2002, the show's... |
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The League of Extraordinarily Funny Women: 50 Trailblazers of Comedy
Sheila Moeschen · Running Press Adult
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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A celebration of the most groundbreaking women in comedy who used humor to shake up the status quo and change perceptions of gender and comedy forever.
The League of Extraordinarily Funny Women celebrates the outstanding contributions of fifty women in comedy past and present. From... |
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Tragedy Plus Time: A Tragi-comic Memoir
Adam Cayton-Holland · Touchstone
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Truth & Beauty - from one of Variety's "10 Comics to Watch," a poignant tragicomic memoir about the author's beautiful, funny, and heartbreaking relationship with his younger sister and the depression... |
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Olivia de Havilland and the Golden Age of Hollywood
Ellis Amburn · Lyons Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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This is classic Hollywood history as told through the life and career of one of its most iconic actresses. The book benefits tremendously from the author's meeting with Olivia de Havilland after he was assigned to handle her projected memoir at the Delacorte Press in 1973. Amburn also... |
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Cook Like a Local: Flavors That Can Change How You Cook and See the World: A Cookbook
Chris Shepherd · Clarkson Potter
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Chris Shepherd, James Beard Award-winning chef of Houston's Underbelly Hospitality, is a champion of that city's incredibly diverse immigrant cuisines. In his restaurant, he calls out the names of the cooks--Vietnamese, Korean, Indian, and others - who have inspired him, and in his book,... |
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My Diarrhe
NOT AVAILABLE. · Gallery Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Selp-Helf comes the "leaked" diary of YouTube comedic personality Miranda Sings.
Taped together so the world can read all about her life through her eyes, My Diarrhe includes pages from Miranda's baby... |
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Failure Is An Option: An Attempted Memoir
H JON BENJAMIN · Dutton
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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H. Jon Benjamin--the lead voice behind Archer and Bob's Burgers--helps us all feel a little better about our own failures by sharing his own in a hilarious memoir-ish chronicle of failure.
Most people would consider H. Jon Benjamin a comedy show business success. But he'd... |
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On Story?The Golden Ages of Television
Austin Film Festival · University of Texas Press
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
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"On Story is film school in a box, a lifetime's worth of filmmaking knowledge squeezed into half-hour packages." - Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles TimesAustin Film Festival (AFF) is the first organization to focus on writers' creative contributions to film... |
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In Pieces
Sally Field · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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In this intimate, haunting literary memoir, an American icon tells her story for the first time, and in her own gorgeous words--about a challenging and lonely childhood, the craft that helped her find her voice, and a powerful emotional legacy that shaped her journey as a daughter and a mother.
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Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else
MAEVE HIGGINS · Penguin Books
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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A timely essay collection about life, love, and becoming an American from breakout comedy star and podcaster Maeve Higgins
"Maeve Higgins is hilarious, poignant, conversational, and my favorite Irish import since U2. You're in for a treat." - Phoebe Robinson, New York... |
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We Should All Be Mirandas: Life Lessons from Sex and the City's Most Underrated Character
Chelsea Fairless · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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A snarky guide to life inspired by the most underrated character on Sex and the City, from the creators of the Instagram sensation @everyoutfitonSATC When Sex and the City premiered, many were hesitant to identify as the Miranda of their social circle - after all, sarcasm, workaholism,... |
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