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Napalm & Silly Putty - George Carlin
Amazon.com ReviewStandup comic George Carlin follows up his dark-horse smash bestseller __ with another compendium of cranky meditations, cinching his reputation as the Andy Rooney... -
Naked Pictures of Famous People - Jon Stewart
Amazon.com ReviewSometimes it seems like every standup comedian worth his or her salt just has to do the book thing, and you might feel that yet another warmed-over stage routine .... -
Mr. Fox - Helen Oyeyemi
Amazon.com ReviewAli Smith, Booker Prize–nominated, bestselling author of There But For The, and The Accidental, interviews Helen Oyeyemi about *Mr. Fox*... -
Moab Is My Washpot - Stephen Fry
Amazon.com ReviewStephen Fry is not making this up! Fry started out as a dishonorable schoolboy inclined to lies, pranks, bringing decaying moles to school as a science exhibit, th... -
Lord of Snow and Shadows - Sarah Ash
Amazon.com ReviewSara Ash's Lord of Snow and Shadows is the promising opener to the Tears of Artamon series. The novel sets the stage in grand fashion as Ash deftly introduces the.... -
L.A. Dead - Stuart Woods
Amazon.com ReviewStuart Woods is a master of the glitzy, high-concept, suspense thriller, and Stone Barrington, hero of five previous mysteries, is the kind of private cop who glid... -
Kafka Was the Rage_ A Greenwich - Anatole Broyard
From Kirkus ReviewsBrilliant, funny, penetrating observations on life and culture in N.Y.C. after WW II from critic Broyard, who died of cancer in 1990 (Intoxicated by My Illness, ... -
Jamrach's Menagerie - Carol Birch
ReviewSHORTLISTED for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction "One of the best stories I’ve ever read; an extraordinarily good and completely original... -
J. D. Salinger_ A Life - Kenneth Slawenski
Amazon.com ReviewSalinger: A Life avoids such scandalmongering in order to deliver a sensitive (but not fawning) portrait of Salinger the writer. Slawenski looks not only at ... -
Insectopedia - Hugh Raffles
Amazon.com ReviewNeil Shubin Reviews Insectopedia Insectopedia: Insectopedia is one of the most remarkable books ...