Noonday, April 1994. Trade Paperback. Table of Contents is a collection of eight pieces that range from Alaska to New Jersey, describing, for example, the arrival of telephones in a small village near the Arctic Circle and the arrival of wild bears in considerable numbers in New Jersey, swarming in... More about Table of Contents
Vintage, October 1995. Trade Paperback. This provocative new collection of essays by a Pulitzer Prize winner deals with the challenging themes of discovery and surprise in history. Cleopatra's Nose is not a miscellany but rather a selection of recent essays illustrating specific subjects that have preoccupied Boorstin for several decades... More about Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected
Black Sparrow Press, October 2006. Paper Back. More about The Brooklyn Novels: Summer in Williamsburg Homage to Blenholt Low Company
Melville House, July 2019. Paper Back. More about The Diary of a Bookseller
Blue Rider Press, May 2018. Trade Paperback. New York Times-bestselling author and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman sorts through the past decade and how we got to now. Chuck Klosterman has created an incomparable body of work in books, magazines, newspapers, and on the Web. His writing spans the realms of... More about Chuck Klosterman X
Vintage, June 2019. Paper Back. From the best-selling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, a big-hearted memoir told in three parts: about growing up in the wake of the destructive choices of an extremely unconventional mother. Glen David Gold was raised rich, briefly, in southern California at the... More about I Will Be Complete
Viking, June 2019. Hardcover. A literary history of our most influential book of all time, by an Oxford scholar and Anglican priest In our culture, the Bible is monolithic: It is a collection of books that has been unchanged and unchallenged since the earliest days of the Christian church. The... More about A History of the Bible: The Story of the World's Most Influential Book
Harper Perennial, March 1997. Trade Paperback. From a poet who won the National Book Critic's Circle Award and the "Los Angeles Times" Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award all in one year, comes a beautiful, heart-breaking memoir of the death of his lover from AIDS. More about Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut's body if it were pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop when they die? Can Grandma have a Viking funeral... More about Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death
Simon & Schuster, July 2019. Hardcover. The first ever practical, compassionate, and comprehensive guide to dying--and living fully until you do. "There is nothing wrong with you for dying," palliative care doctor B.J. Miller and Shoshana Berger write in A Beginner's Guide to the End. "Our ultimate purpose here isn't... More about A Beginner's Guide to the End
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, July 2019. Hardcover. One of Lit Hub's 10 Books You Should Read This July "The Weil Conjectures is a charming meditation on geometry, sacrifice, and adolescent self-discovery, delivered in passionate, impressionistic bursts." --Jordan Ellenberg, New York Times-bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong An eloquent... More about The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown
Harper Wave, May 2019. Hardcover. Part autobiography, part philosophical inquiry, and part spiritual quest, Comedy Sex God is a hilarious, profound, and enlightening romp around the fertile mind of stand-up stand-out, podcast king, and HBO superstar Pete Holmes. Pete Holmes is a sold-out-every-night stand-up comedian with two HBO specials and... More about Comedy Sex God
PublicAffairs, July 2019. Paper Back. Some people are meant to travel the globe, to unwrap its secrets and share them with the world. And some people have no sense of direction, are terrified of pigeons, and get motion sickness from tying their shoes. These people are meant to stay home... More about All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft
University of California Press, June 1993. Hardcover. In his 1840 lectures on heroes, Thomas Carlyle, Victorian essayist and social critic, championed the importance of the individual in history. Published the following year and eventually translated into fifteen languages, this imaginative work of history, comparative religion, and literature is the most... More about On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History (The Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of...
