The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories
10 best books like The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (Tobias Wolff): The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, Truth and Beauty, Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, A People's History of the World, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal, Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
| Author | Bill Watterson |
| ISBN | 0740748475 |
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Calvin and Hobbes is unquestionably one of the most popular comic strips of all time. The imaginative world of a boy and his real-only-to-him tiger was first syndicated in 1985 and appeared in more than 2,400 newspapers when Bill Watterson retired...
| Author | Ann Patchett |
| ISBN | 0060572159 |
Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work. In Grealy’s critically acclaimed memoir Autobiography of a Face, she wrote about losing part of her jaw...
Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
| Author | Robert Sullivan |
| ISBN | 1582344779 |
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"Engaging...a lively, informative compendium of facts, theories, and musings."-Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
Behold the rat,...
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
| Author | Noam Chomsky |
| ISBN | 0375714499 |
An absolutely brilliant analysis of the ways in which individuals and organizations of the media are influenced to shape the social agendas of knowledge and, therefore, belief. Contrary to the popular conception of members of the press as hard-bitten realists doggedly pursuing unpopular truths,...
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
| Author | Karen Russell |
| ISBN | 0307263983 |
In these ten glittering short stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here, wolf-like girls are reformed by nuns; a family makes its living wrestling alligators in a theme park; and little girls sail away on crab shells. Filled with stunning...
A People's History of the World
Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals. Interacting with the forces of technological change as well as the impact of powerful individuals and revolutionary ideas, these...
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
| Author | Jared Diamond |
| ISBN | 0060845503 |
Another great book from Jared Diamond. I found this to be just as engaging as Guns, Germs, and Steel, and also an easier read. I find that his books have so much information that it is helpful for me to outline them as I go. Here are my favorite bullet points from The Third Chimpanzee. Not at all a comprehensive...
"I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die..." --John Lydon
Punk has been romanticized and embalmed in various media. An English class revolt that became a worldwide fashion statement, punk's idols were the Sex Pistols, and its sneering hero was Johnny Rotten.
Seventeen...
| Author | Alan Taylor |
| ISBN | 0679773002 |
An innovative work of biography, social history, and literary analysis, this Pulitzer Prize-winning book presents the story of two men, William Cooper and his son, the novelist James Fennimore Cooper, who embodied the contradictions that divided America in the early years of the Republic. Taylor...
Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source
| Author | Scott Dikkers |
| ISBN | 0609804618 |
The Onion has quickly become the world's most popular humor publication, misinforming half a million readers a week with one-of-a-kind social satire both in print (on newsstands nationwide) and online from its remote office in Madison, Wisconsin.
Witness the march of history as Editor-in-Chief...
| Author | Richard Bausch |
| ISBN | 0060956224 |
A 2004 PEN/Malamud Award winner, this collection celebrates the work of American artist Richard Bausch -- a writer the New York Times calls "a master of the short story." By turns tender, raw, heartbreaking, and riotously funny, the many voices of this definitive forty-two-story collection (seven...
| Author | Becky Alexander |
| ISBN | 0756667526 |
A landmark in reference publishing and overseen and authenticated by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, Natural History presents an unrivaled visual survey of Earth's natural history. Giving a clear overview of the classification of our natural world-over 6,000...
Homo sapiens have remained the same species, largely unchanged in genetic makeup and anatomy since the Cro-Magnon era. By contrast, the cultural, social, and technological changes since then have been nothing less than extraordinary. Telling our story, from prehistory to the present day, DK's...
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
| ISBN | 0195092627 |
Finally! I began reading this book quite a while ago and am happy to report that I've finished. Overall, I was curious to see the evolution of short story writing in America from its dawning to the late 1980's. I have to admit, I didn't begin to enjoy the stories until I read the ones that came after the Civil...
| Author | Peter Jennings |
| ISBN | 0385483279 |
"We have sought," write Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster, "to distinguish our story from other histories by holding each chapter up to a litmus test: Have we looked at this time from the perspective of someone who lived through it? And in doing so, have we captured a sense not only of the events of a particular...
Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence
| Author | Karen Armstrong |
| ISBN | 0307401960 |
From the renowned and best-selling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion's connection to violence.
For the first time in American history, religious self-identification is on the decline. Some have cited a perception that began to grow after September 11, 2001-that...
The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy
| Author | Arthur Manuel |
| ISBN | 1459409663 |
In this book Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson challenge virtually everything that non-Indigenous Canadians believe about their relationship with Indigenous Peoples and the steps that are needed to place this relationship on a healthy and honourable footing.
Manuel and...
