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Yes, I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians We Are All in Trouble
Judy Gold · Dey Street Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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"No one makes me laugh harder than Judy Gold. If I had to pick one comedian to write a book about free speech, it would be Judy." - Amy SchumerFrom award-winning comedian Judy Gold, an equal parts thoughtful and hilarious polemic on the current efforts to censor comedians, arguing... |
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Nikolai Nikolaevich and Camouflage: Two Novels
Yuz Aleshkovsky · Columbia University Press
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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Among contemporary Russian writers, Yuz Aleshkovsky stands out for his vivid imagination, his mixing of realism and fantasy, and his virtuosic use of the rich tradition of Russian obscene language. These two novels, written in the 1970s, display Aleshkovsky's linguistic gifts and keen... |
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Goodbye Christopher Robin: A. A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh
ANN THWAITE · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh is drawn from Ann Thwaite's Whitbread Award-winning biography of A. A. Milne , one of England's most successful writers. After serving in the First World War, Milne wrote a number of well-received plays, but his greatest... |
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Burn the Place: A Memoir
Iliana Regan · Agate Midway
Pages: 250
Format: Hardcover
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
A singular, powerfully expressive debut memoir that traces one chef's struggle to find her place and what happens once she does.
Burn the Place is a galvanizing memoir that chronicles Iliana Regan's journey from foraging on the family... |
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Lose Well
Chris Gethard · HarperOne
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A laugh-out-loud, kick-in-the-pants self-help narrative for anyone who ever felt like they didn't fit in or couldn't catch a break - comedian and cult hero Chris Gethard shows us how to get over our fear of failure and start living life on our own terms. Let's face it: we all want... |
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Democrazy: A True Story of Weird Politics, Money, Madness, and Finger Food
Trey Radel · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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How the Washington sausage really gets made: a brutally honest, outrageous memoir by former GOP congressman Trey Radel.
"DEMOCRAZY is the most puckish political memoir in recent memory ... enough to make you wish he were still in the House's GOP caucus under the Trump administration."... |
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Forever Stardust: David Bowie Across the Universe
Will Brooker · I. B. Tauris & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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The majority of the many books about David Bowie track his artistic "changes" chronologically throughout his career. This book, uniquely, examines Bowie's "sameness": his recurring themes, images, motifs and concepts as an artist, across all his creative work, from... |
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I Feel Bad: All Day. Every Day. About Everything.
Orli Auslander · Penguin Books
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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Roz Chast meets Allie Brosh in this hilarious, unfiltered, and beautifully illustrated look at the infinite number of reasons the author experiences guilt, shame, regret and self-reproach in her daily life, and that maybe - just maybe - some of us can relate to as well.
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We Three
Jean Echenoz · Dalkey Archive Press
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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Louis Meyer is an overworked aerospace engineer looking forward to a week-long vacation on the Mediterranean. DeMilo is an astronaut and self-proclaimed ladies' man whose behavior borders on the obsessive and voyeuristic. When a series of coincidences and disasters -- including a devastating... |
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Fire and Furry: Pets Get Political
Michael Woof · Imprint
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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We need border collies, not borders.Need a pick-me-up in these challenging times? Take a break with these political (or pawlitical) animals! Cats and dogs reach across the aisle in full-color photos paired with hilarious catchphrases that speak to our current national landscape. From... |
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