The Thurber Carnival

6 best books like The Thurber Carnival (James Thurber): Essays of E.B. White, The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present, My Custom Van: And 50 Other Mind-Blowing Essays That Will Blow Your Mind All Over Your Face, Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, The Cockroach

Essays of E.B. White

Author	E.B. White
ISBN	0060932236

The classic collection by one of the greatest essayists of our time.

Selected by E.B. White himself, the essays in this volume span a lifetime of writing and a body of work without peer.  "I have chosen the ones that have amused me in the rereading," he writes in the Foreword, "alone with a few...

The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present

Author

Phillip Lopate

For more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the  detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward candor and self-disclosure, the personal essay...

My Custom Van: And 50 Other Mind-Blowing Essays That Will Blow Your Mind All Over Your Face

Author	Michael Ian Black
ISBN	1416964053

Get ready for the read of your life. Never before has a single book combined awesome vans, unicorns, Billy Joel, and erotic fiction in such a potent combination. A writing tour de force? Perhaps. A reading experience that will sear itself into your consciousness like a red-hot branding iron? Without...

Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace

Author

David Lipsky

In David Lipsky’s view, David Foster Wallace was the best young writer in America. Wallace’s pieces for Harper’s magazine in the ’90s were, according to Lipsky, “like hearing for the first time the brain voice of everybody I knew: Here was how we all talked, experienced, thought. It was like...

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Author

Tom O'Neill

”Manson himself had a fondness for the same phrase: ‘I am the man in the mirror,’ he said. ‘Anything you see in me is in you, I am you, and when you can admit that you will be free.”


Who is Charles Manson?

This book began as a 5000 word piece for Premiere Magazine with the...

The Cockroach

Author

Ian McEwan

That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature.

Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain –...