A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this gripping political memoir, former Republican political operative Tim Miller answers the question no one else has fully grappled with: Why did normal people go along with the worst of Trumpism?As one of the strategists behind the famous 2012 RNC “autopsy,” Miller conducts his own forensic study on the pungent carcass of the party he used to love, cutting into all the hubris, ambition, idiocy, desperation, and self-deception for everyone to ...

It's been almost a decade since the Fart Monster first entered the world, now he's back in this hilarious new book from bestselling creators Tim Miller and Matt StantonWhen you've got a problem, who do you call?The fart monster has spent years releasing a barrage of bottom bazookas onto the world. Now, in a surprising twist, he's here to help put an end to those roars from the rear!Follow along at home as the fart monster leads us through hi...

From the mega-bestselling creators of Fart Monster and Friends comes your favourite characters, now in paperback!There is a monster under my bed who farts. You don't want to use the bathroom after him...Everyone says, 'It wasn't me!' But what if it REALLY wasn't you? What if it was the monster who lives under your bed? How much trouble can one little monster cause...Written and illustrated by superstar duo, Tim Miller and Matt Stanton, this ...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFormer Republican political operative Tim Miller answers the question no one else has fully grappled with: Why did normal people go along with the worst of Trumpism?As one of the strategists behind the famous 2012 RNC “autopsy,” Miller conducts his own forensic study on the pungent carcass of the party he used to love, cutting into all the hubris, ambition, idiocy, desperation, and self-deception for ever...

The Lonely Young and the Lonely Old is a collection of quiet and brutal jewels. Told in the words of an unnamed narrator, each story gives voice to the easily dismissed: the lonely high school student, the elderly widower, the pining woman in her twenties, and the worn-down mother in her mid-thirties. Each speaks from the center of an almost paralyzed intensity, desperately searching for articulation and belonging.And there are others: neglected children who escape into th...

NINE OVER PAR is Tim Miller's second collection of golf-themed stories and includes the novella "The Links Lighter." Gene Santos always dreamed of a life in Comedy. He lives a normal life with normal regrets, until a fateful night at the Twin Oaks Monday Night Men's Golf League when he suffers a traumatic brain injury. In his mind, he's reliving his lost youth and doing stand-up comedy, but in reality he's setting golf courses on fire. At his side is the ghost of Phineas Gage, neuroscience...

What lasts, and what endures? Through more than fifty poems, the first volume of Time and the River takes in war from ancient Nubia to the atomic bomb and Cold War spies, creativity from prehistoric Europe to Emily Dickinson and Albert Einstein, and the sacred from Israelite prophets, the gods and goddesses of old Europe, and Viking-age seers. Painters and writers, ancient Rome and Iron Age burials, Egyptian tombs and high school in America circa 1999 - all find a voice here.

American Home Cooking provides an answer to the question of why, in the face of all the modern technology we have for saving time, Americans still spend time in their kitchens cooking.Americans eat four to five meals per week in a restaurant and buy millions of dollars’ worth of convenience foods. Cooking, especially from scratch, is clearly on its way out. However, if this is true, why do we spend so much money on kitchen appliances both large and small? Why are so many cooking sh...

Nine stories, sprawled out like nine holes. Always the same, but always different. As with the temperature, wind, and visibility, the leavesand the grass. So it is with the golfer, the reader. Young and old. Happy and sad. Looking forward,looking back... nine chances. Places to seek, alone or together, with friends, family, ghosts and strangers. Success and failure. Love and loneliness. Birdies and bogeys, lies and truth, but always ourselves.

When the Sun Is In Tune is a novel about a rock and roll band coming of age in the fictional town of Riverview, Illinois, a town with an active, thirty-year ban on rock and roll. With a factory and quarry, it's the perfect setting for the timeless clash of conservative values vs. rock and roll music.

Nine stories, sprawled out like nine holes. Always the same, but always different. As with the temperature, wind, and visibility, the leaves and the grass. So it is with the golfer, the reader. Young and old. Happy and sad. Looking forward, looking back... nine chances. Places to seek, alone or together, with friends, family, ghosts and strangers. Success and failure. Love and loneliness. Birdies and bogeys, lies and truth, but always ourselves.What if Jesus Christ showed up for a ...

Barbecue: A History examines barbecue's history and place in American society using both historical and contemporary sources. The book examines all aspects of barbecue:Outdoor grilling and traditional slow cooking Restaurant and home cookingInternational forms of barbecue The specific foods involved in a barbecueThe concept of the barbecue as a gatheringHistorical and contemporary recipes for main and side dishesReaders are treated here to a delightful and thorough history o...