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• I'm awake
• Seconds
• Ask the answer lady
• Canonize me
• Me, flirting
• How to tie-dye
• Dream on, you motherfucking mother
• Would everybody please stop?
• An affair to remember
• When I meditate
• My gathas
• Nothing left to lose
• Tawk therapy
• I can't get that penis out of my mind
• It's about time
• Take my horse, please
• Faking it
• Can I borrow that?
• My gratitudes
• My new feminist cop show
• Scary stories for grown-ups
• L.L. Bean and me
• Hair today, gone tomorrow
• I have to go now
• The trouble with nature
• Speak, memory
• Can I have your errands?
• How to take Dad to the doctor
• What I saw at the movies
• What I've learned
• Salt and pepper
• Roger Ailes's new, enlightened code of sexual conduct
• Falling
• Please don't invite me.

"A collection of first-person essays and humor pieces about one woman's attempt to make sense of the baffling, humiliating, and extremely annoying world around her"-- Provided by publisher.

• How to never be enough
• Love in the time of chakras
• I want to be a whole person but really thin
• Help me not to be a human being
• Love like you are trying to fill an insatiable spiritual hole with another person who will suffocate in there
• Honk if there's a committee in your head trying to kill you
• I took the internet addiction quiz and I won
• I don't feel bad about my neck
• The patron saint of nicotine gum
• My vomit fetish, myself
• One text is too many and a thousand are never enough
• Hello 911, I can't stop time
• Google hangout with my higher self
• The terror in my heart says hi
• Never getting over the fantasy of you is going okay
• Keep your friends close but your anxiety closer
• I told you not to get the knish: thoughts on open marriage and illness
• Under the anxiety is sadness but who would go under there.

"A darkly funny and brutally honest collection of essays from Melissa Broder who has always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012, she went through a harrowing cycle of panic attacks and dread that wouldn't abate for months. So she began @sosadtoday, an anonymous Twitter feed that allowed her to express her darkest feelings, and which quickly gained a dedicated following. In this collection, Broder delves deeper into the existential themes she explores on Twitter, grappling with sex, death, love low self-esteem, addiction, and the drama of waiting for the universe to text you back." -- Provided by publisher.

When Brian Doyle died of brain cancer at the age of sixty, he left behind dozens of books -- fiction and nonfiction, as well as hundreds of essays -- and a cult-like following who regarded his writing on spirituality as one of the best-kept secrets of the 21st century. Though Doyle occasionally wrote about Catholic spirituality, his writing is more broadly about the religion of everyday things. He writes with a delightful sense of wonder about the holiness of small things, and about love in all its forms: spiritual love, brotherly love, romantic love, friendly love, love of nature, and even the love of a nine-foot sturgeon. At a time when our world feels darker than ever, Doyle's essays are a balm for the tired soul. He finds beauty in the quotidian: the awe of a child the first time she hears a river, the whiskers a grieving widow misses seeing in her sink every day -- but through his eyes, nothing is ordinary. David James Duncan sums up Doyle's sensibilities best in his introduction to the collection: "Brian Doyle lived the pleasure of bearing daily witness to the glories hidden in people, places and creatures of little or no size or renown, and brought inimitably playful or soaring or aching or heartfelt language to his tellings." In a time when wonder seems to be in short supply, Your One Wild and Precious Life, Doyle and Duncan invite readers to experience it in the most ordinary of moments, and allow themselves joy in the smallest of things.
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Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Joseph Epstein would surely be at the top of anybody's list. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but immediately recognizable quality called style. Above all, he is impossible to put down. Joseph Epstein's The Ideal of Culture: Essays is the fourth such volume from Axios Press and contains 63 essays. Subjects range from domestic life to current social trends to an appraisal of "contemporary nuttiness." It follows the much acclaimed Essays in Biography, 2012, A Literary Education and Other Essays, 2014, and Wind Sprints: Shorter Essays, 2016. After reading Epstein, we see life with a fresh eye. We also see ourselves a little more clearly. This is what Plutarch intended: life teaching by example, but with a wry smile and such a sure hand that we hardly notice the instruction. It is just pure pleasure.
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• Prologue. The where of it
• Shake me up, Judy
• Cake-frosting country
• Cake-frosting coda : the astonishment index
• In case of Firenze
• A bag of one's own
• Cave of the iron door
• Red state, blue state : a short, biased lament
• Today I will fly
• Little traffic light men
• Place as answer : HGTV
• Rules for the well-intended
• Think of England
• Location sluts
• The room where it happens
• Lundi matin
• Coda. I see a long journey

Through the author's travels in Europe and the United States, Try to Get Lost explores the quest for place that compels and defines us: the things we carry, how politics infuse geography, media's depictions of an idea of home, the ancient and modern reverberations of the word 'hotel, ' and the ceaseless discovery generated by encounters with self and others on familiar and foreign ground. Frank posits that in fact time itself may be our ultimate, inhabited place the vastest real estate we know, with a stunningly short lease.
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• Introduction. Feminism (n.) : Plural
• Me. Feel me, see me, hear me, reach me ; Peculiar benefits ; Typical first year professor ; To scratch, claw or grope clumsily or frantically
• Gender & sexuality. How to be friends with another woman ; Girls, girls, girls ; I once was Miss America ; Garish, glorious spectacles ; Not here to make friends ; How we all lose ; Reaching for catharsis : getting fat right (or wrong) and Diana Spechler's "Skinny" ; The smooth surfaces of idyll ; The careless language of sexual violence ; What we hunger for ; The illusion of safety/the safety of illusion ; The spectacle of broken men ; A tale of three coming out stories ; Beyond the measure of men ; Some jokes are funnier than others ; Dear young ladies who love Chris Brown so much they would let him beat them ; Blurred lines, indeed ; The trouble with Prince Charming, or, He who trespassed against us
• Race & entertainment. The solace of preparing fried foods and other quaint remembrances from 1960s Mississippi : thoughts on The help ; Surviving Django ; Beyond the struggle narrative ; The morality of Tyler Perry ; The last day of a young black man ; When less is more
• Politics, gender & race. The politics of respectability ; When Twitter does what journalism cannot ; The alienable rights of women ; Holding out for a hero ; A tale of two profiles ; The racism we all carry ; Tragedy, call, compassion, response
• Back to me. Bad feminist : take one ; Bad feminist : take two.

• The new leadership
• Suspending belief
• Rules
• Speculative fiction
• The scare-cat
• Khayelitsha Takeaway
• Wo(und)man
• Bloodhounds
• Specimen
• Iceland
• The participant
• I will never hit on you
• Adventure time
• Brief intervention
• Ethnography of a Ranfurly man
• The wilderness

A father rollerblading to church in his ministerial robes, a university student in a leotard sprinting through fog, a trespass notice from Pak'nSave, a beautiful unborn goat in a jar . . . In scenarios ranging from the mundane to the surreal, Madison Hamill looks back at her younger selves with a sharp eye. Was she good or evil? Ignorant or enlightened? What parts of herself did she give up in order to forge ahead in school, church, work, and relationships, with a self that made sense to others? With wit and intelligence, these shape-shifting essays probe the ways in which a person's inner and outer worlds intersect and submit to one another. It is a brilliantly discomfiting, vivid and funny collection in which peace is found in the weirdest moments. 'I never felt that I was looking at fine writing - only at astonishing writing.' -Elizabeth Knox.
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• Goodbye, Tuscaloosa
• A test of the emergency alert system
• Epistle to an embryo
• To the good people of Joplin
• Fifty ways of looking at tornadoes
• The longest wait
• The girl in the surf
• Dispatches from drownings
• Buckethead
• The changing
• Death by refrigerator
• Fabricating fear
• Fort Wayne is still seventh on Hitler's list
• The year of the great forgetting
• Hirofukushima
• Punch line
• Bedtime stories.

On April 27, 2011, just days after learning of their pregnancy, B. J. Hollars, his wife, and their future son endured the onslaught of an EF-4 tornado. There, while huddled in a bathtub in their Alabama home, mortality flashed before their eyes. With the last of his computer battery, Hollars began recounting the experience, and would continue to do so in the following years, writing his way out of one disaster only to find himself caught up in another. Tornadoes, drownings, and nuclear catastrophes force him to acknowledge the inexplicable, while he attempts to overcome his greatest fear-the impossibility of protecting his newborn son from the world's cruelties. Hollars creates a constellation of grief, tapping into the rarely acknowledged intersection between fatherhood and fear, sacrifice and safety, and the humbling effect of losing control of our lives.
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• Mark Foo's last ride
• Living under the volcano
• Death and anger on Everest
• Descent to Mars
• After the fall
• Gates of the Arctic
• Loving them to death
• A clean, well-lighted place
• Fred Beckey is still on the loose
• Embrace the misery.

"The gripping articles collected in Classic Krakauer--originally published in magazines such as The New Yorker, Outside, and Smithsonian--show why he is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism. Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these pieces take us from a horrifying avalanche on Mount Everest to a volcano poised to obliterate a big chunk of Seattle; from a wilderness teen-therapy program run by apparent sadists to an otherworldly cave in New Mexico, studied by NASA to better understand Mars; from the notebook of one Fred Beckey, who catalogued the greatest unclimbed mountaineering routes on the planet, to the last days of legendary surfer Mark Foo. Rigorously researched and vividly written, marked by an unerring instinct for storytelling and scoop, these pieces are unified by the author's ambivalent love affair with unruly landscapes and his relentless search for truth"-- Provided by publisher.

The Oregon writer's attempt to write the greatest book on rain in the history of Oregon literature.

• Echo patterns
• Lost and found
• Open ye gates! Swing wide ye portals!
• End of the line
• How to survive an atomic bomb
• Chasing the boundary: boom and bust on the high prairie
• Three minutes to midnight.

"In The History of the Future, McPherson explores America in all its beauty and strangeness. He is funny and searching-a joy to read."--Elizabeth Kolbert Praise for Edward McPherson: "Mr. McPherson is an intrepid traveler. a charming and literate companion, and he approaches his task with becoming modesty."-The Wall Street Journal What does it mean to think about Dallas in relationship to Dallas? In The History of the Future, McPherson reexamines American places and the space between history, experience, and myth. Private streets, racism, and the St. Louis World's Fair; fracking for oil and digging for dinosaurs in North Dakota boomtowns-Americana slides into apocalypse in these essays, revealing us to ourselves. Edward McPherson is the author of two previous books: Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat (Faber & Faber) and The Backwash Squeeze and Other Improbable Feats (HarperCollins). He has written for the New York Times Magazine, the Paris Review, Tin House, and the American Scholar, among others. He teaches creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis"-- Provided by publisher.

A Man's World is a collection of 20 profiles of fascinating men by author and magazine writer Steve Oney. Written over a 40-year period for publications including Esquire, Premiere, GQ, Time, Los Angeles, and The Atlanta Journal & Constitution Magazine, the stories bring to life the famous (Harrison Ford), the brilliant (Robert Penn Warren), the tortured (Gregg Allman), and the unknown (Chris Leon, a 20-year-old Marine Corps corporal killed in the Iraq war). Several of the articles are prize winners. "The Talented Mr. Raywood" won the City and Regional Magazine Association Award for best profile in an American city magazine. "Herschel Walker Doesn't Tap Out" won the Chicago Headline Club's Peter Lisagor Award for best magazine sports story. "Hollywood Fixer" won the Los Angeles Press Club Award for best magazine profile. "The Casualty of War" was a finalist for Columbia University's National Magazine Award. Although Oney has written about many other subjects during his career (his first book, And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank, is an epic exploration of an infamous criminal case), he realized early that he was interested in how men face challenges and cope with success--and failure. He was drawn to fighters, creators, actors, and desperadoes, seeing in their struggles something of his own. His agent, an ardent feminist, urged him to collect the best of his articles in a book. A Man's World is the result.
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