Arbitrary Stupid Goal
10 best books like Arbitrary Stupid Goal (Tamara Shopsin): The Incendiaries, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Clyde Fans, Priestdaddy, Everything is Flammable, You're on an Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir, gods with a little g, The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good
| Author | R.O. Kwon |
| ISBN | 0735213895 |
A powerful, darkly glittering novel of violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea.
Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous...
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
A bold, wry, and intimate graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing.
“By turns hilarious and heart-rending, it’s exactly the book America needs at this moment.”—Celeste...
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
| Author | Jia Tolentino |
| ISBN | 0525510540 |
Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly in a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Jia writes...
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
| Author | Jenny Odell |
| ISBN | 1612197493 |
This thrilling critique of the forces vying for our attention re-defines what we think of as productivity, shows us a new way to connect with our environment and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see about our selves and our world.
When the technologies we use every day collapse...
A masterful work about a failing family business and the ensuing erosion of sibling relations and one’s sanity
Twenty years in the making, Clyde Fans peels back the optimism of mid-twentieth century capitalism. The legendary Canadian cartoonist Seth lovingly shows the rituals, hopes,...
| Author | Patricia Lockwood |
| ISBN | 1594633738 |
The childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed "The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas" by The New York Times, was unusual in many respects. There was the location: an impoverished, nuclear waste-riddled area of the American Midwest. There was her mother, a woman who speaks almost entirely...
| Author | Gabrielle Bell |
| ISBN | 1941250181 |
"Gabrielle Bell's pen becomes a kind of laser, first illuminating the surface distractions of the world, then scorching them away to reveal a deeper reality that is almost too painful and too beautiful to bear." —Alison Bechdel, Fun Home and Are You My Mother
In Gabrielle Bell’s much anticipated...
You're on an Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir
| Author | Parker Posey |
| ISBN | 0735218196 |
It's hard not to love Parker Posey. A singularly gifted actress with a wickedly funny personality that belies her movie star status, her cross-generational fame stems from starring roles in such unforgettable movies as Dazed and Confused, Party Girl, and You've Got Mail, and her recurring roles in...
From the acclaimed author of Girlchild, this gritty, irreverent novel sees a young misfit grow into hope
Rosary, California, is not an easy place to grow up, particularly without a mom. So cut off from the rest of the world that even the Internet is blocked, Rosary is a town named by Catholics...
The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good
| Author | Elizabeth L. Cline |
| ISBN | 1524744301 |
The Conscious Closet is not just a style guide. It is a call to action to transform one of the most polluting industries on earth--fashion--into a force for good. Readers will learn where our clothes are made and how they're made, before connecting to a global and impassioned community of stylish fashion...
Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age
| Author | Kenneth Goldsmith |
| ISBN | 0231149913 |
Can techniques traditionally thought to be outside the scope of literature, including word processing, databasing, identity ciphering, and intensive programming, inspire the reinvention of writing? The Internet and the digital environment present writers with new challenges and opportunities...
Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York
| Author | Roz Chast |
| ISBN | 1620403218 |
From the #1 NYT bestselling author of Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Roz Chast's new graphic memoir--a hilarious illustrated ode/guide/ thank-you note to Manhattan.
A native Brooklynite-turned-suburban commuter deemed the quintessential New Yorker, Roz Chast has always...
Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
| Author | John Hodgman |
| ISBN | 0525561102 |
A hilarious and honest new book in which John Hodgman, New York Times bestselling author of Vacationland, sets out to explore the strange work-land of being a somewhat famous person
After spending most of his twenties pursuing a career as a literary agent, John Hodgman decided to try his own...
