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Infomercial for LIZZ FREE OR DIE, starring Brian Unger & Lizz Winstead
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Tags: Lizz Winstead Author Comedy Brian Unger nonfiction humor daily show
"Reading Lizz Winstead's hilarious collection of very personal essays somehow leaves you changed. You laugh, and yet there are nutrients in her words." —Sarah Silverman Lizz Winstead, co-creator of The Daily Show and one of today's most hilarious comedians and insightful social critics, pens a...
A SENSE OF DIRECTION: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful by Gideon Lewis-Kraus
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"If David Foster Wallace had written Eat, Pray, Love, it might have come close to approximating the adventures of Gideon Lewis-Kraus. A SENSE OF DIRECTION is the digressively brilliant and seriously hilarious account of a fellow neurotic's wanderings, and his hard-won lessons in happiness,...
Geoff Kloske's "The David Awards" Acceptance Speech
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Riverhead Publisher Geoff Kloske accepts his David Award for "Best On Screen / On Air Personality" for his role in "You Had Me At Woof"
FORGOTTEN COUNTRY by Catherine Chung
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"It is a rare novel -- debut or otherwise -- that can sing at once with such tenderness and ferocity, with such intense feeling and exquisite restraint. Forgotten Country is just that book, poetically crafted, shimmering with hard-won emotion, and wholly absorbing. A superb performance."...
Let Sam Sommers help shape your view of world: SITUATIONS MATTER
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Tags: Situations Matter Sam Sommers Psychology Professor Context knowledge nonfiction
Listen to award-winning psychology professor Sam Sommers discuss context and be enlightened into a new awareness and way of thinking. Get the full story in SITUATIONS MATTER: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World - on sale from your favorite book seller. "In this wonderful and witty...
Elliot Perlman discusses his epic new novel, THE STREET SWEEPER
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Tags: Elliot Perlman The Street Sweeper Literature Novel Fiction Jewish Holocaust Nazi Civil Rights Movement The Holocaust Judaism
"[Perlman] brilliantly makes personal both the Holocaust and the civil rights movement, and crafts a moving and literate page-turner." -Publishers Weekly, starred review About THE STREET SWEEPER: Lamont Williams is a paroled felon looking to turn his life around, working as a street sweeper at a...
The Conundrum by David Owen
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Tags: The Conundrum David Owen Sustainability Environment Efficiency Riverhead Books Nonfiction Manifesto Green Future Energy New Yorker
The Conundrum: How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse The Conundrum is a mind-changing manifesto from The New Yorker writer David Owen about the environment, efficiency and the real path to sustainability. Hybrid cars,...
Maple Syrup, Airplane Crashes, and The Power of Non-Market Innovation
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Drawing on the arguments in his bestselling book, Where Good Ideas Come From, and his new collection, The Innovator's Cookbook, Steven Johnson looks at the surprising—and encouraging—way that non-market environments create important innovations, in this talk from the Emerging Technology...
CHARLOTTE AU CHOCOLAT: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood (a memoir)
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Like Eloise growing up in the Plaza Hotel, Charlotte Silver grew up in her mother's restaurant. Located in Harvard Square, Upstairs at the Pudding was a confection of pink linen tablecloths and twinkling chandeliers, a decadent backdrop for childhood. Over dinners of foie gras and Dover sole,...
Shalom Auslander: Attic Call with John Hodgman
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www.shalomauslander.com http "Shalom Auslander writes like some contemporary comedic Jeremiah, thundering warnings of disaster and retribution. What makes him so terrifyingly funny is that he isn't joking." -- Howard Jacobson, author of The Finkler Question and winner of the Man Booker Prize...
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