A generation-defining exploration of the new midlife crisis facing Gen X women and the unique circumstances that have brought them to this point, Why We Can’t Sleep is a lively successor to Passages by Gail Sheehy and The Defining Decade by Meg Jay When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that …
The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)
Winner of the 2019 National Book Award for NonfictionA New York Times BestsellerNamed a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book ReviewNamed one of the “10 Best Books of 2019” by the New York Times Book Review, Seattle Times, Chicago Public Library, the Chicago Tribune, and SlateNamed a Best Book of 2019 by the …
One of the New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the YearON MORE THAN 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR LISTS: including TIME (#1 Nonfiction Book), NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine (10 Favorite Books), Vogue (Top 10), Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle (Top 10), Miami Herald, St. Louis …
The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards, The Sympathizer is the breakthrough novel of the year. With the pace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to Graham Greene and Saul Bellow, The Sympathizer is a sweeping epic of love and betrayal. The narrator, a communist …
Whether he is accidentally cooking his brain with hand warmers or yanking his lure away from a trophy fish just before it takes the bait, Bill Heavey can do no right. For almost a decade, he has chronicled his incompetence on the back page of Field & Stream, where his hilarious dispatches about life as a hapless outdoorsman …
In two decades at Field & Stream, the nation’s biggest outdoor magazine, Bill Heavey has become America’s everyman outdoorsman. Why? Because he believes that enthusiasm trumps skill. When he forgets his hat on a freezing winter hunt, he improvises, cutting open the juice-stained plush golden retriever puppy his daughter left in the car and using it as headgear. …
It’s Only Slow Food Until You Try to Eat It: Misadventures of a Suburban Hunter-Gatherer
Mr. Heavey takes us back to the joysand occasional pitfallsof the humble edibles around us, and his conclusions ring true.”Wall Street JournalLongtime Field & Stream contributor Bill Heavey has become the magazine’s most popular voice by writing for sportsmen with more enthusiasm than skill. In his first full-length book, Heavey chronicles his attempts to eat wild,” seeing how …
Remarkable Sentence by sentence, Goldman brings to life a city that is bewitching, terrifying, beautiful .Goldman brings something new to the [chronicle] form.”John Freeman, Boston GlobeThe Interior Circuit is Sue Kaufman prize-winner Francisco Goldman’s brilliant chronicle of his emergence from grief five years after his beloved wife’s death, symbolized by his attempt to overcome his fear of driving in Mexico …
Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
Called “an everyman’s guide to Washington” (The New York Times), P. J. O’Rourke’s savagely funny and national best-seller Parliament of Whores has become a classic in understanding the workings of the American political system. Originally written at the end of the Reagan era, this new edition includes an extensive foreword by the renowned political writer Andrew Ferguson — …
Now available from Grove Press, P. J. O’Rourke’s classic, best-selling guided tour of the world’s most desolate, dangerous, and desperate places. “Tired of making bad jokes” and believing that “the world outside seemed a much worse joke than anything I could conjure,” P. J. O’Rourke traversed the globe on a fun-finding mission, investigating the way of life in …