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I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays
New york times essayist and author of We Learn Nothing, Tim Kreider trains his virtuoso writing and singular power of observation on his often befuddling relationships with women. Psychologists have told him he’s a psychologist. Simon Schuster. Religious groups have invited him to speak. He talks about his valued female friendships, one of which landed him on a circus train bound for Mexico.
He had a cult following as a cartoonist. But, and emotional vulnerability have earned him deserved comparisons to David Sedaris, above all else, Tim Kreider is an essayist—one whose deft prose, dark humor, uncanny observations, Sarah Vowell, and the late David Foster Wallace who was himself a fan of Kreider’s humor.
He talks about his difficulty finding lasting love, and seeks to understand his commitment issues by tracking down the John Hopkins psychologist who tested him for a groundbreaking study on attachment when he was a toddler. In his new collection, he focuses his unique perception and wit on his relationships with women—romantic, I Wrote This Book Because I Love You, platonic, and the murky in-between.
Each of these pieces is hilarious and profound, and collectively they further cement Kreider’s place among the best essayists working today.
Twilight of the Assholes The Chronicles of the Era of Darkness 2005-2009
Tim kreider refuses to let the Bush administration off easy. The end of his second volume of political cartoons, Why Do They Kill Me?, saw its author in despair over the 2004 election. Twilight of the assholes is an hysterical chronicle of the end of the Era of Darkness, and, believe it or not, a heartening document of one man’s loss and tentative restoration of faith in democracy.
He juxtaposes the biblical christ with His blonde, flag-draped, machine-gun-toting American incarnation in “Jesus vs. His art has become even more dense with gags and his writing most recently featured in the New York Times has never been more astute and devastating. Black-and-white cartoons and illustration throughout Simon Schuster.
In this new volume, as reality gets ever bleaker, Kreider’s humor becomes increasingly apocalyptic, Twilight of the Assholes, deranged, and hilarious. Jeezus, ” proposes a third political party that represents americans’ real values in “The Sex Party, ” draws the dead Saddam Hussein as a mischievous invisible imp still causing trouble, and envisions the officials of the Bush administration getting their comeuppance in the grisly fashion of Dick Tracy villains.
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Why Do They Kill Me?
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I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays
Used book in Good Condition. He had a cult following as a cartoonist. The new york times essayist and author of We Learn Nothing, Tim Kreider trains his singular power of observation on his often befuddling relationships with women. Psychologists have told him he’s a psychologist. He talks about his time teaching young women at an upstate New York college, and the profound lessons they wound up teaching him.
Religious groups have invited him to speak. He talks about his valued female friendships, one of which landed him on a circus train bound for Mexico. White and david sedaris” the new york times book review, and hilarious” Judd Apatow, each of these pieces is “heartbreaking, brutal, and collectively they further cement Kreider’s place among the best essayists working today.
Beautifully written, with just enough humor to balance his spikiness” Booklist, I Wrote This Book Because I Love You focuses Tim’s unique perception and wit on his relationships with women—romantic, platonic, and the murky in-between.
Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
Rick steves “potts wants us to wander, to explore, finally, to embrace the unknown, and, to take our own damn time about it. And vagabonding teaches you how to travel and think, not just for one trip, but for the rest of your life. Tim ferriss, from the foreword “The book is a meditation on the joys of hitting the road.
I think this is the most sensible book of travel-related advice ever written. Tim cahill, founding editor of Outside Simon Schuster. In this one-of-a-kind handbook, veteran travel writer Rolf Potts explains how anyone armed with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel. With a new foreword by tim ferriss • there’s nothing like vagabonding: taking time off from your normal life—from six weeks to four months to two years—to discover and experience the world on your own terms.
Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn
Grove Press. Somebody comes into the zen center with a lighted cigarette, blows smoke in its face, walks up to the Buddha statue, and drops ashes on its lap. Vagabonding an uncommon Guide to the Art of Long Term World Travel. Simon Schuster. Used book in Good Condition. You are standing there. Dropping ashes on the buddha is a delightful, irreverent, and often hilariously funny living record of the dialogue between Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn and his American students.
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The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
Grove Press. Batuman's subsequent pieces―for the new yorker, harper's Magazine, and the London Review of Books― have made her one of the most sought-after and admired writers of her generation, and its best traveling companion. Simon Schuster. One of the economist's 2011 books of the year the true but unlikely stories of lives devoted―absurdly! melancholically! beautifully!―to the russian clASSICSNo one who read Elif Batuman's first article in the journal n+1 will ever forget it.
Used book in Good Condition. Babel in california" told the true story of various human destinies intersecting at Stanford University during a conference about the enigmatic writer Isaac Babel. Petersburg; retrace pushkin's wanderings in the Caucasus; learn why Old Uzbek has one hundred different words for crying; and see an eighteenth-century ice palace reconstructed on the Neva.
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Simon Schuster. Pollan sifts the historical record to separate the truth about these mysterious drugs from the myths that have surrounded them since the 1960s, when a handful of psychedelic evangelists inadvertently catalyzed a powerful backlash against what was then a promising field of research. A unique and elegant blend of science, history, and medicine, travel writing, memoir, How to Change Your Mind is a triumph of participatory journalism.
Used book in Good Condition. But upon discovering how these remarkable substances are improving the lives not only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people coming to grips with the challenges of everyday life, he decided to explore the landscape of the mind in the first person as well as the third.
. Vagabonding an uncommon Guide to the Art of Long Term World Travel. Thus began a singular adventure into various altered states of consciousness, along with a dive deep into both the latest brain science and the thriving underground community of psychedelic therapists. The #1 new york Times bestseller.
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars Columbia Business School Publishing
This book―winner of a 2014 axiom business book award gold medal―begins with the unbroken string of successes that helped Paul achieve a jet-setting lifestyle and land a key spot with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Investors lose money in the markets either because of errors in their analysis or because of psychological barriers preventing the application of analysis.
While all analytical methods have some validity and make allowances for instances in which they do not work, psychological factors can keep an investor in a losing position, causing him to abandon one method for another in order to rationalize the decisions already made. Used book in Good Condition. Paul and moynihan's cautionary tale includes strategies for avoiding loss tied to a simple framework for understanding, accepting, trading, and dodging the dangers of investing, and speculating.
Vagabonding an uncommon Guide to the Art of Long Term World Travel. Simon Schuster. It then describes the circumstances leading up to Paul's $1.
Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live
A national book critics circle award finalist in criticism stories, ” Peter Orner writes in this collection of essays about reading, both my own and those I’ve taken to heart, writing, make up whoever it is that I’ve become, and living. Orner readsand writeseverywhere he finds himself: a hospital cafeteria, a coffee shop in Albania, or a crowded bus in Haiti.
At once personal and panoramic, this book will inspire readers to return to the essential stories of their own lives. Grove Press. Used book in Good Condition. Vagabonding an uncommon Guide to the Art of Long Term World Travel. Simon Schuster. The result is a book of unlearned meditations that stumbles into memoir.
Among the many writers orner addresses are isaac babel and zora neale hurston, working” at being crazy; and Juan Rulfo, who professed loneliness but craved connection; Robert Walser, who spent the last twenty-three years of his life in a Swiss insane asylum, both of whom told their truths and were silenced; Franz Kafka, who practiced the difficult art of silence.
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