It can happen to anyone. No matter how intelligent you are, how self-confident and capable you are, you can become the prey of a malignant narcissist. Especially if you are an empath and unaware of your gift. We do not label ourselves as victims, but without a victim, narcissists get away with the crime. It happened to Anna Bailey not once, but twice throughout her adult life. She just never knew there was a name for what she was and what they were.. She had been driving her life blind to ...

A woman, exhausted by work and motherhood, hires the services of a sinister firm that promises her a brand-new life…Journeying across America to make a claim to an inheritance, a man must confront the shame and bigotry that has haunted his family for generations…A picture-perfect holiday threatens to unravel as two daughters come to terms with the uneasy dynamic of their new blended family…The stories shortlisted for the 2022 BBC National Short Story Award with Camb...

NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES •NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK • An anniversary edition of the bestselling collection of "Dear Sugar" advice columns written by the author of #1 bestseller Wild—featuring a new preface and six additional columns.For more than a decade, thousands of people have sought advice from Dear Sugar—the pseudonym of bestselling author Cheryl Strayed—first through her online column at The Rumpus, later through ...

Bernadette lives alone with her little boy, Theo, enjoying her post-divorce life in her cozy cottage. But a telephone stalker brings terror into their lives.

“This is so well written. [When a book like this] comes along, it’s, like, ‘Thank you!’ What a great way to spend an afternoon, an evening, reading these essays. . . . Absolutely great.”—Jon Stewart“[Merrill] Markoe is easily as funny as David Sedaris. She’s capable of manic riffs and acerbic skewering. Still, her good nature shines through.”—The Washington PostIn this hilarious collection of candid essays, including two pieces new...

New York Times bestselling leadsinger of Slipknot and Stone Sour's hilarious trawl through the endless backwaters of human stupidityCorey Taylor has had it. Had it with the vagaries of human behavior and life in this postmodern digital blanked-out waiting room that passes for a world. Reality TV, awful music, terrible drivers, megamalls, airports, family reunions, bad fashion choices, other people's monstrous children, and badly-behaved "adult" human being...

"Barnett's prose style is brassy and cleareyed, with echoes of Anne Lamott." --Beth Macy, The New York Times Book Review"Emotionally devastating and self-aware, this cautionary tale about substance abuse is a worthy heir to Cat Marnell's How to Murder Your Life." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)A startlingly frank memoir of one woman's struggles with alcoholism and recovery, with essential new insights...

Edited by Joseph O'Connor (author of Star of the Sea and Ghost Light) New Irish Short Stories is a stunning collection from a fascinating variety of writers, both new and established. Featuring, among many others, William Trevor and Roddy Doyle, Rebecca Miller and Richard Ford, Christine Dwyer Hickey and Colm Toibin, it shows the short story to be a vibra...

The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its sixth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and web sites, looking for the b...

The psychological experience of withdrawal after years of drinking four bottles of wine a day, every day, evokes the image of my mind being warped and stretched over an Event Horizon as it's about to be sucked through a Black Hole.My story will take the reader through my experiences of late stage alcoholism, two arrests by my new husband of three months, and my subsequent adventures through and between five inpatient treatment centers.

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A Good Morning America Recommended Book • A LitReactor Best Book of the Year • A BuzzFeed Most Anticipated Book of the Year • A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year • A Rumpus Most Anticipated Book of the Year • A Bustle Most Anticipated Book of the Month"A pathbreaking feminist manifesto, impossible to put down or dismiss. Gina Frangello tells...

Note to Self: When you feel f&*ed up: Stop. Breathe. Talk to someone. Tell them stuff. Stop being an asshole and thinking you’re going to get through it alone. Problems are like broken pipes: they need a person to fix them. Oh, and clean your room, you filthy animal.Kevin Breel burst into the public's awareness when at 19 his TED talk became a worldwide phenomenon. Through the lens of his own near suicide, he shared his profoundly vulnerable story of being young, m...