The Oranging of America and Other Stories

8 best books like The Oranging of America and Other Stories (Max Apple): Naked, Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style, Holidays on Ice, The Blind Owl, Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings, Whoredom In Kimmage: The Private Lives of Irish Women, Vanishing Point, Speedboat

Naked

Author	David Sedaris
ISBN	0316777730

Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its proverbial ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview—a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable....

Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style

Author	Benjamin Dreyer
ISBN	0812995708

A witty, informative guide to writing "good English" from Random House's longtime copy chief and one of Twitter's leading enforcers of proper grammar--a twenty-first-century Elements of Style.

As authoritative as it is amusing, this book distills everything Benjamin Dreyer has...

Holidays on Ice

Author	David Sedaris
ISBN	0316191299

David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favorites as the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters (Us and Them); the difficulties...

The Blind Owl

Author	Sadegh Hedayat
ISBN	0802131808

Considered the most important work of modern Iranian literature, The Blind Owl is a haunting tale of loss and spiritual degradation. Replete with potent symbolism and terrifying surrealistic imagery, Sadegh Hedayat's masterpice details a young man's despair after losing a mysterious lover. And...

Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings

Author

Manny Farber

Manny Farber (1917–2008) was a unique figure among American movie critics. Champion of what he called "termite art" (focused, often eccentric virtuosity as opposed to "white elephant" monumentality), master of a one-of-a-kind prose style whose jazz-like phrasing and incandescent twists and...

Whoredom In Kimmage: The Private Lives of Irish Women

Author	Rosemary Mahoney
ISBN	0385474504

Written with the art of a skilled fiction writer whose ear for Irish bluster is pitch-perfect, Whoredom in Kimmage tells the tale of contemporary Irish women through a series of brilliantly animated scenes that take the reader from Dillon's tiny pub in rural Corofin to the heart of Dublin. This beguiling...

Vanishing Point

Author	David Markson
ISBN	1593760108

In the literary world, there is little that can match the excitement of opening a new book by David Markson. From Wittgenstein’s Mistress to Reader’s Block to Springer’s Progress to This Is Not a Novel, he has delighted and amazed readers for decades. And now comes his latest masterwork, Vanishing...

Speedboat

Author	Renata Adler
ISBN	0060971436

One of the most acclaimed novels of the late 20th century is back. When members of the National Book Critics Circle were polled to see which book they would most like to see republished, they chose Speedboat—“by far.” This story of a young female newspaper reporter coming of age in New York City...