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Val Kilmer

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Will Forte, George Newbern, Mare Winningham

In this New York Times bestseller, legendary actor and star of the acclaimed documentary Val shares the stories behind his most beloved roles, reminisces about his star-studded career and love life, and reveals the truth behind his recent health struggles in a remarkably candid autobiography.Val Kilmer has played many iconic roles over his nearly four-decade film career. A table-dancing Cold War agent in Top Secret! A troublemaking scienc...

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Jenny Slate

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Jenny Slate, George Saunders, Vanessa Bayer, Will Forte

From actor, comedian, co-creator of Marcel the Shell, and New York Times bestselling author of Little Weirds, Jenny Slate, a wild, soulful, hilarious collection of genre-bending essays depicting the journey into motherhood as you’ve never seen it before.What happened was this: Jenny Slate was a human mammal who sniffed the air every morning hoping to find another person to love who would love her, and in that period there was a deep dark lonelines...

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Jenny Slate

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George Saunders, Jenny Slate, Vanessa Bayer, Will Forte

Praise for Jenny Slate and Little Weirds'Magical' Mindy Kaling'Delicious' Amy Sedaris'This book is something new and wonderful. It made me remember I was alive' George SaundersFrom actor, comedian, co-creator of Marcel the Shell, and New York Times bestselling author of Little Weirds Jenny Slate, a wild, soulful, hilarious collection of genre-bend...

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David Foster Wallace

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Ben Shenkman, Bobby Cannavale, Chris Messina, Christopher Meloni, Cory Stoll, David Foster Wallace, Dennis O'Hare, Joey Slotnick, John Krasinski, Lou Taylor Pucci, Malcolm Goodwin, Max Minghella, Michael Cerveris, Will Forte

In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person', a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World', which reveals a woman's agonised consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband; and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men', a dark, hilarious series of portraits of men whose fear of...

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David Foster Wallace

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David Foster Wallace, Robert Petkoff

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humour? What is John Updike's deal anyway? And who won the Adult Video News' Female Performer of the Year Award the same year Gwyneth Paltrow won her Oscar? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in his new book of hilarious non-fiction.For this collection, David Foster Wallace immerses himself in the three-ring circus that is the presidential race in order to document one of the most vicious campaigns in rec...

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Howard Markel

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Mike Cooper

By early morning of June 30, 1860, a large crowd began to congregate in front of Oxford University's brand-new Museum of Natural History. The occasion was the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and the subject of discussion was Charles Darwin's new treatise: fact or fiction?Darwin claimed to have solved "that mystery of mysteries," introducing a logical explanation of the origin of species—how they adapted, even transmogrified, through natural...

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Yiyun Li

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Yiyun Li

This program is read by the author and includes an audio-only bonus story, Call Me Ishmael's Mother.A new collection—about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life—by the award-winning, and inimitable, author of The Book of Goose.A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she’s lost. Elsewhere, a professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year, a restless woman re...

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Jenny Slate

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Jenny Slate

'Magical . . . Each essay feels like a vivid, cinematic experience' MINDY KALING'Delicious' AMY SEDARIS'Funny and poignant and beautiful' JOHN MULANEY'It made me remember I was alive' GEORGE SAUNDERSTo see the world through Jenny Slate's eyes is to see it as though for the first time, shimmering with strangeness and possibility. As she will remind you, we live on an ancient ball that rotates...

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Shannon Reed

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Paige McKinney

A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile, and Thurber Prize SemifinalistWe read to escape, to learn, to find love, to feel seen. We read to encounter new worlds, to discover new recipes, to find connection across difference, or simply to pass a rainy afternoon. No matter the reason, books have the power to keep us safe, to challenge us, and perhaps most importantly, to make us more fully human.Shannon Reed, a l...

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Amanda Yates Garcia

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Amanda Yates Garcia

**An inspiring memoir memoir about finding meaning, beauty, and power through a life in witchcraft—it's Smoke Gets in Your Eyes meets Women Who Run With The Wolves."Gorgeously written, fierce, political, personal, and deeply inspiring." —Michelle Tea, author of Modern Tarot**An initiation signals a beginning: a door opens and you step through. Traditional Wiccan initiates are usually brought into the craft through a ceremony with a High Priestess....

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Julia Cooke

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Andi Arndt

Glamour, danger, liberation: In a Mad Men era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out and wanted up.Required to have a college education, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, a jet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 1966 and 1975 also had to be between five foot three and five foot nine, between 105 and 140 pounds, and under 26 years of age at the time of hire.Cook...

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Chantal V. Johnson

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Tiffany Smith

In this story on survival, a young lawyer’s family reunion brings long-buried pain and anger to the surface, threatening her career, her values, and all of her relationships—a story of trauma, healing, and the power of ride-or-die female friendship.To the outside observer, Vivian is a success story—a dedicated lawyer who advocates for mentally ill patients at a New York City psychiatric hospital. Privately, Vivian contends with the memories and aftereffects of her ...