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  The Know-It-All

  One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World

  by A. J. Jacobs

  33,000 PAGES 44 MILLION WORDS 10 BILLION YEARS OF HISTORY 1 OBSESSED MAN Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z. To fill the ever-widening gaps in his Ivy League education, A.J. Jacobs sets for himself the daunting task of reading all... (more)
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  The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People

  by Susan Orlean

  The bestselling author of The Orchid Thief is back with this delightfully entertaining collection of her best and brightest profiles. Acclaimed New Yorker writer Susan Orlean brings her wry sensibility, exuberant voice and peculiar curiosities to a fascinating range of subjects — from the well known (Bill Blass) to the unknown (a typical ten-year-old boy) to the formerly known (the 1960s girl group the Shaggs). ... (more)
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  Esquire Presents: What It Feels Like: *To Walk on the Moon*To Be Gored by a Bull*To Survive an Avalanche *To Swallow Swords*To Go Over Niagara Falls in a Barrel*To Be Shot in the Head*To Win the L

  by A. J. Jacobs

  Have you ever wondered what it feels like: to be stuck in a tornado? “<It> is exactly the feel of a freight train approaching—that low, ever-louder howl and the shuddering ground.” to participate in an orgy? “And all the while, the thought that keeps going through your mind (and through the cab ride home, and into breakfast the next day): ‘I’m at an orgy! I’m at an orgy!’” to have a severe stutter?... (more)
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  The Hunger, and Other Stories

  by Charles Beaumont

  Most people won't admit it ...... but lurking in the dark halls of everyone's mind is a germ of ghoulishness. It shows up in anything from a gleam in the eye at midnight to a snap of a neck at dawn. Most people try to keep it a secret, but Charles Beaumont is proud of every awful thought he has, and lots of them come out as short stories.THE HUNGER is a collection of such stories. Some of them... (more)
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  The Magic Man

  by Charles Beaumont

  CHARLES BEAUMONTA MASTER OF THE TALE FANTASTICAL"How many writers at the age of 36 have managed to create such a body of work? Endless dozens of stories alight with the magic of a truly extraordinary imagination. Stories shot through with veins of coruscating wit. Stories profound and moving -- others feather-light and dancing on a wind of jest. Stories marked by insight, foresight and that unique,... (more)
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  Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow

  by Ray Bradbury, Helen Eustis, William Sansom, Christopher Isherwood

  Ray Bradbury, Master of MiraclesStrange, haunting , bizarre, grotesque, stories to set you shivering, gasping with terror, gaping with wonder ...Timeless stories selected by Ray BradburyEach -- in the remarkable Bradbury tradition -- a vivid and unforgettable adventure into the unknown, written by one of the master storytellers of our time: Roald Dahl, Christopher Isherwood, John... (more)
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  Nine Horrors and a Dream

  by Joseph Payne Brennan

  Proceed with caution ...Mr. Brennan is a sometime poet, and he brings to the weird tale the poet's incisive sensibility, the magic that provokes chills down the spine, the web of words that weaves the reader into a quivering trap of fear.From the oozing terror of "Slime" to the nightmare of "Canavan's Back Yard," these are tales that offer the best of Joseph Payne Brennan's early work in the... (more)
• A Fortune Yet: Money in the Art of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Short Stories (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)Bryant Mangum

  

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  A Fortune Yet: Money in the Art of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Short Stories (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)

  by Bryant Mangum

  This book details F. Scott Fitzgerald's professional writing career, particularly focusing on his short stories appearing in The Smart Set, The Saturday Evening Post, and Esquire. This is an important text because critics have long ignored or written off Fitzgerald's short stories, brushing them off as lesser than his novels and/or overtly commercial. However, Mangum argues that these stories not only earned... (more)
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  Eating the Dinosaur

  by Chuck Klosterman

  A Book of All-New Pop Culture Pieces by Chuck Klosterman. Chuck Klosterman has chronicled rock music, film and sports for almost 15 years. He's covered extreme metal, extreme nostalgia, disposable art, disposable heroes, life on the road, life through the television, urban uncertainty and small-town weirdness. Through a variety of mediums and with a multitude of motives, he's written about everything he can think... (more)
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  On an Odd Note

  by Gerald Kersh

  GERALD KERSH is many things to many people. His writing has been described as "provocative," "brilliant," "triumphantly irritating," "sinister," "wildly funny," "vigorous," "titillating," "enthralling" -- the list is endless.This requires something more than the gifts of imagination, humor and a good mind. It requires mastery.And Mr. Kersh is a master of words.He has that priceless... (more)
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  In the Grip of Terror

  by Groff Conklin

  22 Tales of STARK TERROR-- The gruesome horror of H. P. Lovecraft's IN THE VAULT.-- The creeping, stifling suspense of Edgar Allan Poe's THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM.-- The eerie tale of THE MOTH by H. G. Wells.and-- Wilkie Collins, Stephen Crane, Guy de Maupassant, Ray Bradbury, Dorothy Sayers, Ambrose Bierce, Saki, etc.22 stories you can't forget -- the best works of the outstanding... (more)
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  Esquire Presents: What It Feels Like: *To Walk on the Moon*To Be Gored by a Bull*To Survive an Avalanche *To Swallow S words*To Go Over Niagara Falls in a Barrel*To Be Shot in the Head*To Win the L

  by A.J. Jacobs

  Have you ever wondered what it feels like: to be stuck in a tornado? “<It> is exactly the feel of a freight train approaching—that low, ever-louder howl and the shuddering ground.” to participate in an orgy? “And all the while, the thought that keeps going through your mind (and through the cab ride home, and into breakfast the next day): ‘I’m at an orgy! I’m at an orgy!’” to have a severe stutter?... (more)
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  Esquire The Rules: A Man's Guide to Life

  Now in paperback, this men's manual to life in the 21st century is out just in time for Father's Day! Derived from the magazine's popular feature, Esquire The Rules provides plenty of lighthearted reading, manly musings, and good advice. It's entertainment to live by, covering work to sex and everything in between-including Rule Number 581: If the bartender has a mullet, ordering a martini is probably a bad... (more)