My book is a comedy and a social satire about how everyone starts out idealistically chomping at the bit to use their mind to the fullest. (A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste after all according to that Old School Traditional philosophy.) But after a while it sooner or later dawns on most everyone that what they are really doing is wasting their mind anyway. (Not only because no one ever LISTENS, but because nothing works the way it has been talked up).Its an up close and personal...

Blinded by the light in America? Has America let you down by failing to live up to its orginal promise? Maybe Phantom knows something that you dont.Fall down the rabbit hole with Phantom and grab a ringside dark room seat as he turns America upside down.As he challenges glib (but dishonest) procrastinating politicians who promise the moon, but dont deliver (overseeing oversight is all they do from day to night) and exploitive, verbally abusive motor mouth radio talk show ho...

American Paranoia depicts the plight of those poor souls "lost" in an America that has gotten off track. An America in which "confidence" has turned into a "confidence" game and politicians have become "confidence" men. And positive thinking itself has become a kind of manipulative, "confidence on demand" PR commodity."I never doubted for a minute everything would come out all right," parroted an American hostage fi nally released after being held captive by terrorists for what mus...

Sixteen literary luminaries on the controversial subject of being childless by choice, in this critically acclaimed, bestselling anthologyOne of the most provocative and talked-about books of the year, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed is the stunning collection exploring one of society’s most vexing taboos.One of the main topics of cultural conversation during the last decade was the supposed “fertility crisis,” and whether modern women could fi...

**“Kreider locates the right simile and the pith of situations as he carefully catalogues humanity’s inventive and manifold ways of failing” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).In We Learn Nothing, satirical cartoonist Tim Kreider turns his funny, brutally honest eye to the dark truths of the human condition, asking big questions about human-sized problems: What if you survive a brush with death and it doesn’t change you? Why do we fall in love w...

"The brilliant mind behind Party of One examines the striking social trend: people are stuck and they want to change, but..." (San Francisco Chronicle)In this book, Anneli Rufus identifies an intriguing aspect of our culture: Many of us are stuck. Be it in the wrong relationship, career, or town, or just with bad habits we can't seem to quit, we even say we want to make a change, but . . . Merging interviews, personal anecdotes, and cultural criti...

Though she might not always follow her own advice, Elizabeth Wurtzel knows certain things to be true: Doing copious amounts of drugs leads nowhere you want to be; trying to be friends with your ex is always a bad idea; if you can’t afford to hire a mover, you can’t afford to move; and always doing the best you can is always good enough.Here are Wurtzel’s succinct and clever rules for living your best life. Fulfillment is within everyone’s reach. Grasping it takes enjoying your mist...

Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, reads the speech she delivered in Stockholm, Sweden, at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony.

**A short, concise book in favor of honoring doubt and admitting when the answer is: I don’t know.From the acclaimed author of No Book but the World and 2019's searing new novel Strangers and Cousins.**In a tight, enlightening narrative, Leah Hager Cohen explores why, so often, we attempt to hide our ignorance, and why, in so many different areas, we would be better off coming clean. Weaving entertaining, anecdotal reporting with eye-opening research, she ...

Teenage Sociology is about the changing society that we, as teenagers, are growing up in. The book describes how we are living in a society that is becoming increasingly narcissistic, and the affect this has on us. After reading this book you will see the root causes of our societies worst aspects. And you will find the solutions and gain the knowledge to change our world.

The Thong Snap: Tanned Thighs & Twisted Lies is an erotic essay from author A.H. Scott. It deals with the public and media's fascination with a once private matter - infidelity.

***WINNER OF THE 2023 BC AND YUKON ETHEL WILSON PRIZE**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE*NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn urgent first novel about breaching the prisons we live inside from one of Canada’s most daring literary talents.**An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him: the shape of the novel he yearns to write, an autobiography of his rural hometown, th...