Incoming Resources
- The price of the ticket, collected nonfiction, 1948-1985, James Baldwin
- Farther away, Jonathan Franzen
- Recollections of my nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit
- In deep, country essays, by Maxine Kumin. --
- The Aztec treasure house, selected essays, Evan S. Connell
- Stranger than fiction, true stories, Chuck Palahniuk
- Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now, Maya Angelou
- Distrust that particular flavor, William Gibson
- Abominations, selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction, Lionel Shriver
- What are we doing here?, essays, Marilynne Robinson
- I remember nothing, and other reflections, Nora Ephron
- Family man, Calvin Trillin
- The most of Andy Rooney, Andrew A. Rooney. --
- I hate everyone--starting with me, Joan Rivers
- That is all, John Hodgman
- The depositions, new and selected essays on being and ceasing to be, Thomas Lynch ; foreword by Alan Ball
- Hugging the shore, essays and criticism, John Updike. --
- Thinking out loud, on the personal, the political, the public, and the private, Anna Quindlen
- The mansions of limbo, Dominick Dunne
- Hype and glory, by William Goldman
- Happy days were here again, reflections of a libertarian journalist, William F. Buckley, Jr. ; edited by Patricia Bozell
- Wry martinis, Christopher Buckley
- The rest of us, dispatches from the mother ship, Jacquelyn Mitchard
- On grief and reason, essays, Joseph Brodsky
- A common room, essays, 1954-1987, Reynolds Price. --
- A stay against confusion, essays on faith and fiction, by Ron Hansen
- What goes around, a novel, Parry "EbonySatin" Brown
- The funny thing is--, Ellen Degeneres
- Dave Barry turns 50, Dave Barry
- Four of a kind, a treasury of favorite works by America's best-loved humorist, Erma Bombeck
- I thought he was a speed bump, ... and other excuses from life in the fast lane, Terry Marotta
- I have words to spend, reflections of a small town editor, Robert Cormier ; edited and with a preface by Constance Senay Cormier
- Funny business, the legendary life and political satire of Art Buchwald, Michael Hill
- Why we suck, a feel good guide to staying fat, loud, lazy and stupid, Denis Leary
- Lunatics, [a novel], Dave Barry
- The bible of unspeakable truths, Greg Gutfeld ; with a foreword by Penn Jillette
- The merry heart, reflections on reading, writing, and the world of books, Robertson Davies
- All I know about animal behavior I learned in Loehmann's dressing room, Erma Bombeck
- Common nonsense, Andy Rooney
- Just before dark, collected nonfiction, by Jim Harrison
- Why my third husband will be a dog, the amazing adventures of an ordinary woman, Lisa Scottoline
- Fatal charms and other tales of today, Dominick Dunne. --
- At the same time, essays and speeches, Susan Sontag ; edited by Paolo Dilonardo and Anne Jump ; foreword by David Rieff
- The web of life, weaving the values that sustain us, Richard Louv
- Some freaks, David Mamet
- This quiet dust, and other writings, William Styron. --
- The rant zone, an all-out blitz against soul-sucking jobs, twisted child stars, holistic loons, and people who eat their dogs, Dennis Miller
- Ex libris, confessions of a common reader, Anne Fadiman
- So this is depravity, Russell Baker. --
- The primary colors, three essays, Alexander Theroux