The Essential Lenny Bruce
9 best books like The Essential Lenny Bruce (John Cohen): Hellboy, Vol. 1: Seed of Destruction, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing, So Sad Today: Personal Essays, Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos, What We Ache For: Creativity and the Unfolding of Your Soul, Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story, San Francisco Blues, Markings
Hellboy, Vol. 1: Seed of Destruction
| Author | Mike Mignola |
| ISBN | 1593070942 |
Dark Horse presents new editions of the entire Hellboy line with new covers, beginning with Seed of Destruction, the basis of director Guillermo del Toro's blockbuster films. Hellboy is one of the most celebrated comics series in recent years. The ultimate artists' artist and a great storyteller...
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
| Author | David Foster Wallace |
| ISBN | 0316925284 |
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner — David Foster Wallace...
Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing
| Author | Alan Moore |
| ISBN | 0930289226 |
Before WATCHMEN, Alan Moore made his debut in the U.S. comic book industry with the revitalization of the horror comic book THE SWAMP THING. His deconstruction of the classic monster stretched the creative boundaries of the medium and became one of the most spectacular series in comic book history.With...
So Sad Today: Personal Essays
| Author | Melissa Broder |
| ISBN | 1455562726 |
Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012, she went through a harrowing cycle of panic attacks and dread that wouldn't abate for months. So she began @sosadtoday, an anonymous Twitter feed that allowed her to express her darkest feelings, and which quickly gained a dedicated...
| Author | Julia de Burgos |
| ISBN | 1880684241 |
Song of the Simple Truth (Canción de la verdad sencilla) is the first bilingual edition of Julia de Burgos' complete poems. Numbering more than 200, these poems form a literary landmark—the first time her poems have appeared in a complete edition in either English or Spanish. Many of the verses...
| Author | Oriah Mountain Dreamer |
| ISBN | 0060011963 |
In her previous books, Oriah Mountain Dreamer has challenged readers to live with passion and honesty, to embrace the true, fallible, human self. What We Ache For is a moving and eloquent call to delve deeply into our creative selves, to do our creative work, and offer it to the world.
The creative...
| Author | Ray Charles |
| ISBN | 0306814315 |
Ray Charles (1930-2004) led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. In Brother Ray, he tells his story in an inimitable and unsparing voice, from the chronicle of his musical development to his heroin addiction to his tangled romantic life. Overcoming poverty, blindness, the...
| Author | Jack Kerouac |
| ISBN | 0146001184 |
Jack Kerouac is best known for his multi-volume Legend of Duluoz, which includes On the Road and The Dharma Bums, but he was also an important poet. One of the eight extended poems contained in Kerouac's Book of Blues (Penguin 1995), 'San Francisco Blues' is an exuberant foray into language and consciousness,...
| Author | Dag Hammarskjöld |
| ISBN | 0307277429 |
Universally known and admired as a peacemaker, Dag Hammarskjöld concealed a remarkable intense inner life which he recorded over several decades in this journal of poems and spiritual meditations, left to be published after his death. A dramatic account of spiritual struggle, Markings has inspired...
