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Would Everybody Please Stop?: Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas
Jenny Allen · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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"One of the funniest writers in America." That's what The New Yorker's Andy Borowitz calls Jenny Allen -- and with good reason. In her debut essay collection, the longtime humorist and performer declares no subject too sacred, no boundary impassable. With... |
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How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life
Lilly Singh · Ballantine Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the People's Choice Award winner for Favorite YouTube Star comes the definitive guide to being a bawse: a person who exudes confidence, hustles relentlessly, and smiles genuinely because he or she has fought through it all and made it out the other... |
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Stephen Stills Change Partners: The Definitive Biography
DAVID ROBERTS · Red Planet
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Stephen Stills is one of the last remaining music legends from the rock era without a biography. During his six-decade career, he has played with all the greats. His career sky-rocketed when Crosby, Stills & Nash played only their second gig together at Woodstock in 1969. With the addition... |
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Against the Grain: Bombthrowing in the Fine American Tradition of Political Cartooning
Bill Sanders · NewSouth Books
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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Editorial cartoonists are an endangered species, and even in their heyday they were rare birds -- at the top ranks of print journalism, only a few hundred such jobs existed worldwide in the 20th century. Yet those who wielded the drawing pen had enormous influence and popularity as they... |
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Money, Murder, and Dominick Dunne: A Life in Several Acts
Robert Hofler · The University of Wisconsin Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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Dominick Dunne seemed to live his entire adult life in the public eye, but in this biography Robert Hofler reveals a conflicted, enigmatic man who reinvented himself again and again. As a television and film producer in the 1950s-1970s, hobnobbing with Humphrey Bogart and Natalie Wood,... |
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Barnum's Own Story: The Autobiography of P. T. Barnum
P T BARNUM · Dover Publications
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback
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P. T. Barnum's career of showmanship and charlatanry was marked by a surprising undercurrent of honesty and forthrightness. His exuberant autobiography forms a happy combination of all those traits, revealing the whole story of his world-famous hoaxes and publicity stunts. Here is a pageant... |
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Buseyisms: Gary Busey's Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth
Gary Busey · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Words of wisdom and incredible life stories, told through Gary Busey's unique Buseyisms."What is a Buseyism? I take the letters that spell a word to create a definition for the word in the truth of its deeper, dimensional meaning. I weave in my personal anecdotes along with my musings... |
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Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the Making of a Legendary American Film
Don Graham · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A larger-than-life narrative of the making of the classic film, marking the rise of America as a superpower, the ascent of Hollywood celebrity, and the flowering of Texas culture as mythology. Featuring James Dean, Rock Hudson, and Elizabeth Taylor, Giant is an epic film... |
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Everything Is Awful: And Other Observations
Matt Bellassai · Atria/Keywords Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From the break-out star of BuzzFeed and the People's Choice Award-winning comedian behind the web series "Whine About It" and "To Be Honest" comes a collection of hilariously anguished essays chronicling awful moments from his life so far, the humiliations of being... |
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Kirk and Anne
KIRK DOUGLAS · Running Press
Pages: 221
Format: Hardcover
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Film legend Kirk Douglas and Anne Buydens, his wife of nearly sixty-three years, look back on a lifetime filled with drama both on and off the screen. Sharing priceless correspondence with each other as well as the celebrities and world leaders they called friends, Kirk and Anne is... |
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Leading Lady: Sherry Lansing and the Making of a Hollywood Groundbreaker
Stephen Galloway · Harmony Books
Pages: 416
Format: Book
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The definitive biography of movie executive and philanthropist Sherry Lansing traces her groundbreaking journey to become the first female head of a major motion picture studio, shares behind-the-scenes tales from movie sets and Hollywood boardrooms, and explains what inspired her to walk... |
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A Dream of Resistance: The Cinema of Kobayashi Masaki
Stephen Prince · Rutgers University Press
Pages: 338
Format: Hardcover
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Celebrated as one of Japan's greatest filmmakers, Kobayashi Masaki's scorching depictions of war and militarism marked him as a uniquely defiant voice in post-war Japanese cinema. A pacifist drafted into Japan's Imperial Army, Kobayashi survived the war with his principles intact... |
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The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian
W KAMAU BELL · DUTTON
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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You may know W. Kamau Bell from his new critically acclaimed, Emmy-nominated hit show on CNN, United Shades of America. Or maybe you've read about him in The New York Times, which called him, "the most promising new talent in political comedy in many years."... |
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Hark
SAM LIPSYTE · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant send-up of our contemporary culture from Sam Lipsyte, the critically acclaimed author of Home Land, centered around an unwitting mindfulness guru and the phenomenon he initiates.In an America convulsed by political upheaval, cultural discord, environmental collapse, and spiritual... |
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