Past Imperfect: An Autobiography

Author	Tom Wolfe
ISBN	0553381342

Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low close in on him,...

Author	Tama Janowitz
ISBN	0671871501

She's Pamela Trowel, a New Yorker, single and singular: holed up in her swampy basement apartment when she isn't peddling guns and ammo ads for "Hunter's World" magazine. Pamela attracts Manhattan's wrongest kind of men: the cinematographer-exhibitionist Alby; her masochistic, creepy, boss-of-all-bosses...

Author	Joe Queenan
ISBN	0786884649

Joe Queenan in the Studio with DJ Ian:

DJ Ian: Joe, you get away with a lot of shit in your Hollywood articles.

Joe Queenan: Hey, but that’s just me. A courageous, starry-eyed boy.

DJ Ian: I like the way you try to replicate the movies in real life.

Joe Queenan: Yeah,...

Author	Alain de Botton
ISBN	0802142400

"The longing for a destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life" we are told at the outset of Alain de Botton's On Love, a hip, charming, and devastatingly witty rumination on the thrills and pitfalls of romantic love.

The narrator is smitten by Chloe on a Paris-London flight, and by...

Author	Helen Fielding
ISBN	0142000221

Available for the first time in the United States, Cause Celeb is the hilarious debut novel by British literary sensation Helen Fielding. With the same wit and candor that shot Bridget Jones's Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason to the top of bestseller lists and forever altered the vocabulary...