Essays
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The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank
$21.00 Add to cart“[Erma Bombeck] is marvelously funny, direct as a hypodermic, a virtuoso in the field of suburban living.”–Vogue
It’s the expos? to end all expos?s–the truth about the suburbs: where they planted t- Author: Bombeck, Erma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0345471725
- Language: English
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Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader
$35.00 Add to cartMichael Parenti’s most lucid and penetrating writings on power, history, politics and culture.
- Author: Parenti, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0872864820
- Language: English
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My Life: Growing Up Native in America
$19.00 Add to cartThis moving collection of twenty powerful essays, poems, and more is “a unique and authentic snapshot of what it means to be Native in the 21st century” (Joey Clift, comedian and TV writer), featuring… [more below]
- Author: Illuminative
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1668021714
- Language: English
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Big Baby: On Endings, Beginnings, and an Interdimensional Cat
$30.00 Read moreFrom comedian and viral sensation Kevin James Thornton comes a hilarious and heartfelt story of growing up in a Christian fundamentalist church, turning trauma into comedy, and finding your own way.
- Author: Thornton, Kevin James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0306836769
- Language: English
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Love in the Afternoon, and Evening: Essays and Conversations on Soap Operas
$21.99 Read morePart cultural analysis, part backstage tour, Love in the Afternoon, and Evening is a love letter to a misunderstood, often-dismissed American genre. Critics, friends, and soap obsessives Charlotte Dru
- Author: Druckman, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1324075562
- Language: English
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Colored People Time: A Case for (Casual) Rebellion
$28.00 Read moreA celebration of tardiness through funny, revealing, and deeply thoughtful essays on the nature of time and collective memory
In Colored People Time, Manny Fidel explores how race, culture, and histor- Author: Fidel, Manny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0593730666
- Language: English
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We’re Having Much More Fun: Punk Archives for the Present from Cbgb to Gilman and Beyond
$29.95 Add to cartIn We’re Having Much More Fun Judith A. Peraino and Tom McEnaney celebrate the ways punks have built and documented their own misfit collectives since the mid-1970s, assembling alternative worlds of r
- Author: Peraino, Judith A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 15 2026
- ISBN10: 1501780328
- Language: English
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No Dumb Questions: And All of Our Dumbest Answers
$30.00 Read moreJason and Travis Kelce–brothers, Super Bowl champions, and New Heights podcast hosts–tackle their first book, No Dumb Questions, where the 92%ers get in on the fun to ask questions about sports, sci
- Author: Kelce, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0063489570
- Language: English
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Value of Design: Creating Agency Through Data-Driven Insights
$45.00 Add to cartIn the context of architecture and real estate, the value of design–be it financial or social value–remains largely unmeasured, overlooked, and inadequately researched. By failing to acknowledge the
- Author: Dr Chegut, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1951541979
- Language: English
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Raised by Ferns
$23.95 Add to cartBorn in a Pacific Northwest gas station to itinerant, countercultural parents, Maya Jewell Zeller came of age in a landscape where poverty, wildness, and self-reliance intertwined. Raised by Ferns tra
- Author: Zeller, Maya Jewell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1736755870
- Language: English
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Men I Hate: A Memoir in Essays
$23.95 Add to cartA rare spouse’s perspective on a partner’s transition that asks what happens to us when the people we are closest to change.
Can a lesbian who loves a trans man still call herself a lesbian? Against- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: D’Amico, Lynette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0814259693
- Language: English
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Adulting for Amateurs: Misadventures of a Geriatric Millennial
$32.00 Read moreFrom the author of A Product of Genetics (and Day Drinking) comes a rowdy and hilarious new collection of essays on life as an elder millennial, filled with life lessons on everything from marriage to… [more below]
- Author: Gutierrez, Jess H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0593854896
- Language: English
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The Beautiful Work: Contemplations On Why We Teach
$16.95 Add to cart- Author: Joy, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 9798993921600
- Language: English
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Meditaciones / Meditations
$15.95 Add to cartEl emperador y fil? sofo romano Marco Aurelio destac? por su serenidad, su modestia y su b? squeda de la verdad, a la vez que fue un c? sar brillante en el campo de batalla. Solo escribi? una obra: Me… [more below]
- Series: Cl?sicos Ilustrados
- Author: Aurelio, Marco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 8410206447
- Language: Spanish
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I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This: (But I’m Going to Anyway)
$19.99 Add to cartA NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“I could not put this book down. It’s so funny” -Ru Paul
“I LOVE this book for its honesty and dark (and light!) comedy” -Rachel Dratch (Instagram)
“It’s f*cking great!!! Raw, intim… [more below]
- Author: Devantez, Chelsea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1335001492
- Language: English
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Inspiration Porn: Essays
$28.00 Read moreHilarious and bawdy musings on disability, sex, family, and Hollywood, from Emmy-winning writer and creator of the Netflix series Special.
For years, Ryan O’Connell wished he was different. Raised in a- Author: O’Connell, Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 1250376246
- Language: English
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Barrag?n Outside Barrag?n: A Journey Through Books, Trips, Exhibitions and Friends
$25.00 Read moreThe life of Mexico’s greatest 20th-century architect as told by Fernanda Canales, Mexico’s rising star architect of the 21st century
Published with Barragan Foundation, Switzerland.
This publication is- Author: Barragan, Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 3945852684
- Language: English
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The Land and Its People: Essays
$32.00 Read more“Sedaris is the standard against which all other humor essayists are judged, the overwhelming heavyweight of the genre.” —Vulture
In his long-awaited new essay collection, David Sedaris reflects on- Author: Sedaris, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 0316607339
- Language: English
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The Death of Conservatism: A Movement and Its Consequences
$21.00 Add to cartSam Tanenhaus’s essay “Conservatism Is Dead” prompted intense discussion and debate when it was published in The New Republic in the first days of Barack Obama’s presidency. Now Tanenhaus, a leading a… [more below]
- Author: Tanenhaus, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0812981030
- Language: English
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The Land and Its People: Essays
$30.00 Read more“Sedaris is the standard against which all other humor essayists are judged, the overwhelming heavyweight of the genre.” —Vulture
In his long-awaited new essay collection, David Sedaris reflects on- Author: Sedaris, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 0316264830
- Language: English
