🍸 Algonquin Round Table

The legendary circle of New York wits—Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, and their peers—whose lunchtime banter defined an era of American literary culture.

Harpo Speaks!

by Harpo Marx • 1961

He went silent onstage after one review, then charmed the Algonquin wits and the Soviet Union.

4.23

4k+

🎭 Vaudeville Roots 🎬 Hollywood Golden Age 🤹 Physical Comedy 📜 Comedy History ✡️ Jewish Entertainers

Harpo Speaks! 87%

He went silent onstage after one review, then charmed the Algonquin wits and the Soviet Union.

by Harpo Marx 1961

4.23

4k+ ratings

🎭 Vaudeville Roots 🎬 Hollywood Golden Age 🤹 Physical Comedy 📜 Comedy History ✡️ Jewish Entertainers

Bandersnatch

by Diana Pavlac Glyer • 2016

Ruthless critique and a wager over pints: the creative collision that built Middle-earth and Narnia.

4.28

1k+

🤝 Creative Collaboration 📖 Literary Biography 🍻 Inklings History 🗣️ Peer Critique 🏛️ Oxford Writers

Bandersnatch 86%

Ruthless critique and a wager over pints: the creative collision that built Middle-earth and Narnia.

by Diana Pavlac Glyer 2016

4.28

1k+ ratings

🤝 Creative Collaboration 📖 Literary Biography 🍻 Inklings History 🗣️ Peer Critique 🏛️ Oxford Writers

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

by Gertrude Stein • 1933

Alice Toklas meets Gertrude Stein in 1907 Paris, entering the salon where modern art was born.

3.54

14k+

📖 Experimental Memoir 🎨 Literary Modernism 🛋️ Salon Culture 💞 Life Partnership 🗼 Americans In Paris

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Summary

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 86%

Alice Toklas meets Gertrude Stein in 1907 Paris, entering the salon where modern art was born.

by Gertrude Stein 1933

3.54

14k+ ratings

📖 Experimental Memoir 🎨 Literary Modernism 🛋️ Salon Culture 💞 Life Partnership 🗼 Americans In Paris

And Here's the Kicker

by Mike Sacks • 2009

21 humorists on finding a comedic voice, editing brutally, and making a living being funny.

4.05

2k+

🎭 Humor Writing 📖 Interview Anthology 🧠 Comedy Theory 🎯 Truth In Comedy 👀 Outsider Humor

And Here's the Kicker 86%

21 humorists on finding a comedic voice, editing brutally, and making a living being funny.

by Mike Sacks 2009

4.05

2k+ ratings

🎭 Humor Writing 📖 Interview Anthology 🧠 Comedy Theory 🎯 Truth In Comedy 👀 Outsider Humor

Miss May Does Not Exist

by Carrie Courogen • 2024

Forty dollars, one audition: American comedy changed forever. Then Elaine May decided to disappear.

3.83

777

🎬 Hollywood History 🎭 Comedy History 🎥 Women Directors 🎪 Improvisation 🤝 Creative Partnerships

Miss May Does Not Exist 85%

Forty dollars, one audition: American comedy changed forever. Then Elaine May decided to disappear.

by Carrie Courogen 2024

3.83

777 ratings

🎬 Hollywood History 🎭 Comedy History 🎥 Women Directors 🎪 Improvisation 🤝 Creative Partnerships

A Man Without a Country

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. • 2005

America as failed empire, Earth as casualty, laughter as survival: Vonnegut's final dispatch.

4.10

50k+

📝 Literary Essays 🖤 Dark Humor 🎭 Political Satire 🌍 Secular Humanism 🕊️ Anti-War Writing

A Man Without a Country 85%

America as failed empire, Earth as casualty, laughter as survival: Vonnegut's final dispatch.

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 2005

4.10

50k+ ratings

📝 Literary Essays 🖤 Dark Humor 🎭 Political Satire 🌍 Secular Humanism 🕊️ Anti-War Writing

A World Without "Whom"

by Emmy J. Favilla • 2017

The internet changed English. Here is the style guide that keeps up.

3.72

491

📖 Style Guides 🌐 Internet Linguistics 🔄 Language Evolution 🤝 Inclusive Language 📝 Descriptivism

A World Without "Whom" 85%

The internet changed English. Here is the style guide that keeps up.

by Emmy J. Favilla 2017

3.72

491 ratings

📖 Style Guides 🌐 Internet Linguistics 🔄 Language Evolution 🤝 Inclusive Language 📝 Descriptivism

Nonconformity

by Nelson Algren • 1996

Real writing means siding with the damned, risking obsession, and refusing to comfort.

4.07

268

✍️ The Writing Life 🎯 Artistic Integrity 🔍 Social Criticism 🏭 Literary Naturalism 🚪 Literary Outsiders

Nonconformity 85%

Real writing means siding with the damned, risking obsession, and refusing to comfort.

by Nelson Algren 1996

4.07

268 ratings

✍️ The Writing Life 🎯 Artistic Integrity 🔍 Social Criticism 🏭 Literary Naturalism 🚪 Literary Outsiders

Papa Hemingway

by A.E. Hotchner • 1955

From Paris to Cuba, a trusted friend documents the fourteen-year unmaking of a literary giant.

4.20

3k+

🖋️ Literary Biography 🥂 Lost Generation ✍️ Writing Craft 🌑 Depression And Creativity 🤝 Literary Friendships

Papa Hemingway 85%

From Paris to Cuba, a trusted friend documents the fourteen-year unmaking of a literary giant.

by A.E. Hotchner 1955

4.20

3k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Biography 🥂 Lost Generation ✍️ Writing Craft 🌑 Depression And Creativity 🤝 Literary Friendships

Sick in the Head

by Judd Apatow • 2015

A teenager's taped interviews with comedy heroes mapped the life he would build in film.

3.67

13k+

🎭 Comedian Memoir ✍️ Comedy Writing 🎤 Interview Collection 🎙️ Stand-Up Comedy 🎬 Show Business Memoir

Sick in the Head 85%

A teenager's taped interviews with comedy heroes mapped the life he would build in film.

by Judd Apatow 2015

3.67

13k+ ratings

🎭 Comedian Memoir ✍️ Comedy Writing 🎤 Interview Collection 🎙️ Stand-Up Comedy 🎬 Show Business Memoir

On Power

by Robert A. Caro • 2017

How one man built a financial empire inside the government and became untouchable.

3.95

1k+

🏙️ Urban Planning 🏛️ Political Power 🗳️ Machine Politics 🏚️ Displacement 🏢 Public Authorities

On Power 85%

How one man built a financial empire inside the government and became untouchable.

by Robert A. Caro 2017

3.95

1k+ ratings

🏙️ Urban Planning 🏛️ Political Power 🗳️ Machine Politics 🏚️ Displacement 🏢 Public Authorities

Letters

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. • 2012

The letters of a man who survived Dresden and spent twenty years failing to write about it.

4.09

2k+

📜 Literary Correspondence 🇺🇸 Postwar American Writers 🪖 World War Ii Memoir ☮️ Antiwar Literature ✍️ The Writing Craft

Letters 85%

The letters of a man who survived Dresden and spent twenty years failing to write about it.

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 2012

4.09

2k+ ratings

📜 Literary Correspondence 🇺🇸 Postwar American Writers 🪖 World War Ii Memoir ☮️ Antiwar Literature ✍️ The Writing Craft

The Manhattan Girls

by Gill Paul • 2022

Four women in jazz age Manhattan fight for careers, love, and a table of their own.

3.69

3k+

🗽 Jazz Age Manhattan 👯 Female Friendship 🖤 Dark Humor 🎭 Backstage Broadway 🏠 Found Family

The Manhattan Girls 85%

Four women in jazz age Manhattan fight for careers, love, and a table of their own.

by Gill Paul 2022

3.69

3k+ ratings

🗽 Jazz Age Manhattan 👯 Female Friendship 🖤 Dark Humor 🎭 Backstage Broadway 🏠 Found Family

Role Models

by John Waters • 2010

Your role models are safe: John Waters learns from criminals, pornographers, and weird artists.

4.07

8k+

🧑‍🎨 Outsider Art 💅 Camp Sensibility ✊ Counterculture 🕯️ Cult Figures 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Aesthetics

Role Models 85%

Your role models are safe: John Waters learns from criminals, pornographers, and weird artists.

by John Waters 2010

4.07

8k+ ratings

🧑‍🎨 Outsider Art 💅 Camp Sensibility ✊ Counterculture 🕯️ Cult Figures 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Aesthetics

Cobb's Anatomy

by Irvin S. Cobb • 1912

A 1912 comic anatomy of everything that aches, sheds, swells, or embarrasses you in public.

3.78

✍️ Humorous Essays 🤡 Self-Deprecating Humor 🫃 Body Humor 🎭 Social Satire 🇺🇸 American Humor

Cobb's Anatomy 85%

A 1912 comic anatomy of everything that aches, sheds, swells, or embarrasses you in public.

by Irvin S. Cobb 1912

3.78

60 ratings

✍️ Humorous Essays 🤡 Self-Deprecating Humor 🫃 Body Humor 🎭 Social Satire 🇺🇸 American Humor

The Long Slide

by Tucker Carlson • 2021

A reporter's thirty-year tour: magazine adventures, foreign wars, and the slow death of free speech.

4.13

2k+

📰 Political Journalism 📺 Media Criticism 🗣️ Free Speech 🏛️ Institutional Decay 🎖️ War Correspondence

The Long Slide 85%

A reporter's thirty-year tour: magazine adventures, foreign wars, and the slow death of free speech.

by Tucker Carlson 2021

4.13

2k+ ratings

📰 Political Journalism 📺 Media Criticism 🗣️ Free Speech 🏛️ Institutional Decay 🎖️ War Correspondence

Last Words

by George Carlin • 2009

Seven words got him arrested, fired, and all the way to the Supreme Court.

3.97

15k+

🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 🗣️ Free Speech 🚫 Taboo Language 🎯 Political Satire ☮️ Counterculture

Last Words 85%

Seven words got him arrested, fired, and all the way to the Supreme Court.

by George Carlin 2009

3.97

15k+ ratings

🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 🗣️ Free Speech 🚫 Taboo Language 🎯 Political Satire ☮️ Counterculture

Between You & Me

by Mary Norris • 2015

Punctuation, pronouns, profanity: the New Yorker copy desk's secrets for making every sentence work.

3.61

7k+

📝 Copy Editing ✏️ Punctuation Marks 📚 Language Memoir 🧐 Editorial Judgment 🗽 New Yorker Style

Between You & Me 85%

Punctuation, pronouns, profanity: the New Yorker copy desk's secrets for making every sentence work.

by Mary Norris 2015

3.61

7k+ ratings

📝 Copy Editing ✏️ Punctuation Marks 📚 Language Memoir 🧐 Editorial Judgment 🗽 New Yorker Style

Just Kids

by Patti Smith • 2010

Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe met broke in New York and pledged a lifetime of art.

4.21

362k+

🏙️ 1970s New York 🎨 Artistic Soulmates 🥖 Starving Artists 🎸 Punk Rock Origins 🌈 Gay Coming Of Age

Just Kids 85%

Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe met broke in New York and pledged a lifetime of art.

by Patti Smith 2010

4.21

362k+ ratings

🏙️ 1970s New York 🎨 Artistic Soulmates 🥖 Starving Artists 🎸 Punk Rock Origins 🌈 Gay Coming Of Age

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman • 1855

A lisp, a Paris classroom, a profane brother: Sedaris on how language betrays and bonds us.

4.11

117k+

📄 Essay Collections 💔 Family Dysfunction 👀 Observational Humor 🗣️ Language Memoirs ✈️ Expat Life

Leaves of Grass 85%

A lisp, a Paris classroom, a profane brother: Sedaris on how language betrays and bonds us.

by Walt Whitman 1855

4.11

117k+ ratings

📄 Essay Collections 💔 Family Dysfunction 👀 Observational Humor 🗣️ Language Memoirs ✈️ Expat Life

What I Saw at the Revolution

by Peggy Noonan • 1990

A Brooklyn speechwriter gives Reagan his voice, then finds power is hollow at the center.

3.91

852

🇺🇸 Reagan Era 🏛️ White House Memoirs ✍️ Political Speechwriting 🌽 Populist Politics 👩‍💼 Women In Politics

What I Saw at the Revolution 85%

A Brooklyn speechwriter gives Reagan his voice, then finds power is hollow at the center.

by Peggy Noonan 1990

3.91

852 ratings

🇺🇸 Reagan Era 🏛️ White House Memoirs ✍️ Political Speechwriting 🌽 Populist Politics 👩‍💼 Women In Politics

I Used to Be Charming

by Eve Babitz • 2019

Eve Babitz captured 1960s LA. These late essays show what happened when the charm wore off.

4.13

2k+

🌴 Los Angeles History ✌️ American Counterculture 📝 New Journalism 🎸 Rock Music Scene 🤩 Celebrity Culture

I Used to Be Charming 85%

Eve Babitz captured 1960s LA. These late essays show what happened when the charm wore off.

by Eve Babitz 2019

4.13

2k+ ratings

🌴 Los Angeles History ✌️ American Counterculture 📝 New Journalism 🎸 Rock Music Scene 🤩 Celebrity Culture

Paranoia

by Shirley Jackson • 2015

A stranger's hat, a fork's grudge: how Shirley Jackson turned daily unease into lasting horror.

4.05

4k+

✍️ Writing Craft 📝 Literary Essays 🏠 Domestic Life 📚 Author Memoirs 🪞 Domestic Uncanny

Paranoia 85%

A stranger's hat, a fork's grudge: how Shirley Jackson turned daily unease into lasting horror.

by Shirley Jackson 2015

4.05

4k+ ratings

✍️ Writing Craft 📝 Literary Essays 🏠 Domestic Life 📚 Author Memoirs 🪞 Domestic Uncanny

A Moveable Feast

by Ernest Hemingway • 1964

Cafés as offices, hunger as discipline, and the 1920s Paris friends who become legends.

4.02

169k+

🖋️ Literary Memoir 🗼 1920s Paris 🇺🇸 American Expatriates ✍️ Writing Discipline 🎨 Literary Modernism

A Moveable Feast 85%

Cafés as offices, hunger as discipline, and the 1920s Paris friends who become legends.

by Ernest Hemingway 1964

4.02

169k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Memoir 🗼 1920s Paris 🇺🇸 American Expatriates ✍️ Writing Discipline 🎨 Literary Modernism

Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

by Bob Odenkirk • 2022

From cult sketch comedy to Saul Goodman: a late-blooming actor's unlikely second act.

3.60

13k+

🎭 Sketch Comedy 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 📝 Tv Writing 😬 Impostor Syndrome 🌱 Late Bloomers

Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama 85%

From cult sketch comedy to Saul Goodman: a late-blooming actor's unlikely second act.

by Bob Odenkirk 2022

3.60

13k+ ratings

🎭 Sketch Comedy 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 📝 Tv Writing 😬 Impostor Syndrome 🌱 Late Bloomers

Based on a True Story

by Norm Macdonald • 2016

SNL stardom from a barber-shop town, ruinous gambling nights, and a memoir that admits it's lying.

4.03

20k+

🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 📖 Comedic Memoir 🎬 Snl Alumni 🎰 Gambling Addiction 🎭 Show Business

Based on a True Story 85%

SNL stardom from a barber-shop town, ruinous gambling nights, and a memoir that admits it's lying.

by Norm Macdonald 2016

4.03

20k+ ratings

🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 📖 Comedic Memoir 🎬 Snl Alumni 🎰 Gambling Addiction 🎭 Show Business

Pour Me, A Life

by A.A. Gill • 2014

Drunk, dyslexic, and directionless, he walked into a newspaper and found the one language that fit.

4.08

3k+

🍷 Addiction Recovery 🍽️ Restaurant Criticism 📰 New Journalism 😂 Comic Memoir 🎖️ War Correspondence

Pour Me, A Life 85%

Drunk, dyslexic, and directionless, he walked into a newspaper and found the one language that fit.

by A.A. Gill 2014

4.08

3k+ ratings

🍷 Addiction Recovery 🍽️ Restaurant Criticism 📰 New Journalism 😂 Comic Memoir 🎖️ War Correspondence

1066 and all that

by W.C. Sellar • 1930

English history, misremembered: every event is a malapropism, every king is Good or Bad.

3.91

4k+

📜 Satirical History 📚 Parody Textbook 🇬🇧 British Humour 🎓 Oxbridge Satire 🎭 Interwar Satire

1066 and all that 85%

English history, misremembered: every event is a malapropism, every king is Good or Bad.

by W.C. Sellar 1930

3.91

4k+ ratings

📜 Satirical History 📚 Parody Textbook 🇬🇧 British Humour 🎓 Oxbridge Satire 🎭 Interwar Satire

Live Alone and Like It

by Marjorie Hillis • 1936

Living alone isn't a misfortune: the 1936 rules for turning it into an advantage.

3.68

1k+

🏠 Solo Living Lifestyle 🥂 Single Positivity 🛋️ Home As Sanctuary 👯 Friendship Cultivation 🍸 Cocktail Culture

Live Alone and Like It 85%

Living alone isn't a misfortune: the 1936 rules for turning it into an advantage.

by Marjorie Hillis 1936

3.68

1k+ ratings

🏠 Solo Living Lifestyle 🥂 Single Positivity 🛋️ Home As Sanctuary 👯 Friendship Cultivation 🍸 Cocktail Culture

Semicolon

by Cecelia Watson • 2019

How a semicolon started a grammar war: the rules we invented, the people they hurt.

3.68

2k+

🖋️ Grammar And Style 📜 Language History 🔍 Cultural Microhistory ⚖️ Language Prescriptivism 🗣️ Grammar Elitism

Semicolon 85%

How a semicolon started a grammar war: the rules we invented, the people they hurt.

by Cecelia Watson 2019

3.68

2k+ ratings

🖋️ Grammar And Style 📜 Language History 🔍 Cultural Microhistory ⚖️ Language Prescriptivism 🗣️ Grammar Elitism

The Facts

by Philip Roth • 1988

A master of fiction tries to write the straight truth about his life, and discovers why he cannot.

3.70

1k+

🖋️ Literary Memoir ✍️ Writers On Writing ✡️ Jewish Identity 🔄 Metafiction 🗽 Artistic Freedom

The Facts 85%

A master of fiction tries to write the straight truth about his life, and discovers why he cannot.

by Philip Roth 1988

3.70

1k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Memoir ✍️ Writers On Writing ✡️ Jewish Identity 🔄 Metafiction 🗽 Artistic Freedom

Growing Up Laughing

by Marlo Thomas • 2010

Comedy giants sat at her father's table. Their lessons helped break television's rules for women.

3.85

2k+

🌟 Celebrity Memoir 🎭 Comedy History 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🎤 Women In Comedy ✊ Feminist Memoir

Growing Up Laughing 85%

Comedy giants sat at her father's table. Their lessons helped break television's rules for women.

by Marlo Thomas 2010

3.85

2k+ ratings

🌟 Celebrity Memoir 🎭 Comedy History 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🎤 Women In Comedy ✊ Feminist Memoir

The Inklings

by Humphrey Carpenter • 1978

An Oxford circle drank, argued, and read their stories aloud. Out came Narnia and Middle-earth.

3.94

4k+

📚 Literary Biography 👥 Group Biography 🏛️ Oxford Literary Circles 🐉 Myth And Faith ✝️ Christian Apologetics

The Inklings 85%

An Oxford circle drank, argued, and read their stories aloud. Out came Narnia and Middle-earth.

by Humphrey Carpenter 1978

3.94

4k+ ratings

📚 Literary Biography 👥 Group Biography 🏛️ Oxford Literary Circles 🐉 Myth And Faith ✝️ Christian Apologetics

A Boy Named Shel

by Lisa Rogak • 2007

He drew for Playboy, wrote for Johnny Cash, and authored The Giving Tree. Then he vanished.

3.42

572

📚 Children's Authors 🎵 Songwriters ✏️ Creative Process 🎭 Countercultural Figures 🕶️ Privacy And Fame

A Boy Named Shel 85%

He drew for Playboy, wrote for Johnny Cash, and authored The Giving Tree. Then he vanished.

by Lisa Rogak 2007

3.42

572 ratings

📚 Children's Authors 🎵 Songwriters ✏️ Creative Process 🎭 Countercultural Figures 🕶️ Privacy And Fame

Lives of the Artists

by Calvin Tomkins • 2008

When art has no fixed rules, the artist's life becomes the work. Ten portraits.

4.10

586

🎨 Contemporary Art ✍️ Art Criticism 💰 Art And Commerce 🎭 Artistic Identity ⚡ Art And Provocation

Lives of the Artists 85%

When art has no fixed rules, the artist's life becomes the work. Ten portraits.

by Calvin Tomkins 2008

4.10

586 ratings

🎨 Contemporary Art ✍️ Art Criticism 💰 Art And Commerce 🎭 Artistic Identity ⚡ Art And Provocation

The Eight Characters of Comedy

by Scott Sedita • 2005

Eight character types underpin every sitcom; here is the craft to write and play them.

4.03

357

📺 Television Writing 🏛️ Character Archetypes 🎭 Comedy Craft 🎬 Comedy Acting 📝 Tv Writers

The Eight Characters of Comedy 85%

Eight character types underpin every sitcom; here is the craft to write and play them.

by Scott Sedita 2005

4.03

357 ratings

📺 Television Writing 🏛️ Character Archetypes 🎭 Comedy Craft 🎬 Comedy Acting 📝 Tv Writers

Why Read Moby-Dick?

by Nathaniel Philbrick • 2010

The whale is America: a historian on why Moby-Dick is the novel our present moment demands.

3.78

5k+

🇺🇸 American Literature 🎭 Tragic Obsession 🔍 Literary Analysis 🦅 American Identity 🌊 Existential Literature

Why Read Moby-Dick? 85%

The whale is America: a historian on why Moby-Dick is the novel our present moment demands.

by Nathaniel Philbrick 2010

3.78

5k+ ratings

🇺🇸 American Literature 🎭 Tragic Obsession 🔍 Literary Analysis 🦅 American Identity 🌊 Existential Literature

Letters to a Young Contrarian

by Christopher Hitchens • 2001

Thinking for yourself will cost you friends and comfort. This is why you do it anyway.

4.13

13k+

🗳️ Political Dissent 🧠 Independent Thought 🏴 Anti-Tribalism 🌍 Internationalism 🔴 Leftist Critique

Letters to a Young Contrarian 85%

Thinking for yourself will cost you friends and comfort. This is why you do it anyway.

by Christopher Hitchens 2001

4.13

13k+ ratings

🗳️ Political Dissent 🧠 Independent Thought 🏴 Anti-Tribalism 🌍 Internationalism 🔴 Leftist Critique

The Lonely Voice

by Frank O'Connor • 1961

The short story speaks for the outsider the novel was never built to see.

3.89

246

📐 Short Story Theory ✍️ Writers On Writing 🔨 Craft Of Fiction 🌿 Outsider Narratives 💔 Literary Loneliness

The Lonely Voice 85%

The short story speaks for the outsider the novel was never built to see.

by Frank O'Connor 1961

3.89

246 ratings

📐 Short Story Theory ✍️ Writers On Writing 🔨 Craft Of Fiction 🌿 Outsider Narratives 💔 Literary Loneliness

84, Charing Cross Road

by Helene Hanff • 1970

One book order to London begins a twenty-year transatlantic friendship told entirely in letters.

4.17

99k+

✉️ Epistolary Memoir 📚 Book Collecting 🏪 Booksellers 📖 Rare Books 💌 Literary Friendship

84, Charing Cross Road 85%

One book order to London begins a twenty-year transatlantic friendship told entirely in letters.

by Helene Hanff 1970

4.17

99k+ ratings

✉️ Epistolary Memoir 📚 Book Collecting 🏪 Booksellers 📖 Rare Books 💌 Literary Friendship

Julie and Julia

by Julie Powell • 2005

A secretary bets a year on 524 French recipes, a tiny kitchen, and a tell-all blog.

3.71

161k+

🍳 Culinary Memoir 🎪 Stunt Memoir 💻 Blogger Memoir 🧭 Quarterlife Crisis 👯 Female Friendship

Julie and Julia 85%

A secretary bets a year on 524 French recipes, a tiny kitchen, and a tell-all blog.

by Julie Powell 2005

3.71

161k+ ratings

🍳 Culinary Memoir 🎪 Stunt Memoir 💻 Blogger Memoir 🧭 Quarterlife Crisis 👯 Female Friendship

Richest Man in Babylon and The Magic Story

by George S. Clason • 2002

An Office writer gets famous and discovers fame fixes nothing about friendship or self-worth.

4.19

676

🎬 Celebrity Memoir 📝 Comic Essays 💕 Complicated Friendship 💪 Body Image Struggles 😂 Self-Deprecating Humor

Richest Man in Babylon and The Magic Story Summary

Richest Man in Babylon and The Magic Story 85%

An Office writer gets famous and discovers fame fixes nothing about friendship or self-worth.

by George S. Clason 2002

4.19

676 ratings

🎬 Celebrity Memoir 📝 Comic Essays 💕 Complicated Friendship 💪 Body Image Struggles 😂 Self-Deprecating Humor

The Great Agnostic

by Susan Jacoby • 2013

The man who drew thousands to hear him speak: why America forgot Robert Ingersoll.

4.04

720

🏛️ American History 📚 Intellectual History 🙏 Religious Criticism 🔬 Reason And Science 🗽 American Freethought

The Great Agnostic 85%

The man who drew thousands to hear him speak: why America forgot Robert Ingersoll.

by Susan Jacoby 2013

4.04

720 ratings

🏛️ American History 📚 Intellectual History 🙏 Religious Criticism 🔬 Reason And Science 🗽 American Freethought

Her Again

by Michael Schulman • 2016

A producer called her ugly in Italian at her first film audition. She understood every word.

3.62

3k+

🎭 Actor Biographies 🏙️ New York Theater 🎬 Hollywood History 🦎 Transformative Acting ✍️ Creative Process

Her Again 85%

A producer called her ugly in Italian at her first film audition. She understood every word.

by Michael Schulman 2016

3.62

3k+ ratings

🎭 Actor Biographies 🏙️ New York Theater 🎬 Hollywood History 🦎 Transformative Acting ✍️ Creative Process

The Simpsons and Philosophy

by William Irwin • 2001

Nietzsche through Ned Flanders. Aristotle through Homer. A course in Western thought, in yellow.

3.45

4k+

📺 Tv Criticism 🧩 Applied Philosophy 🎬 Pop Culture Criticism 🤡 Satire ⚖️ Ethics And Morality

The Simpsons and Philosophy 85%

Nietzsche through Ned Flanders. Aristotle through Homer. A course in Western thought, in yellow.

by William Irwin 2001

3.45

4k+ ratings

📺 Tv Criticism 🧩 Applied Philosophy 🎬 Pop Culture Criticism 🤡 Satire ⚖️ Ethics And Morality

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

by Joan Didion • 1968

At the continent's edge, the American dream frays into murder, lost children, self-deception.

4.18

85k+

✍️ New Journalism 🔍 Cultural Criticism 🌸 California Counterculture 🏚️ American Dream Critique 🎬 Hollywood Critique

Slouching Towards Bethlehem 85%

At the continent's edge, the American dream frays into murder, lost children, self-deception.

by Joan Didion 1968

4.18

85k+ ratings

✍️ New Journalism 🔍 Cultural Criticism 🌸 California Counterculture 🏚️ American Dream Critique 🎬 Hollywood Critique

The True and Only Heaven

by Christopher Lasch • 1991

Progress is exhausted; the only usable past belongs to those who doubted it.

4.36

382

🕰️ Critique Of Modernity 🧠 Intellectual History 🎭 Cultural Criticism 🏛️ Virtue Ethics 🌾 Populism

The True and Only Heaven 85%

Progress is exhausted; the only usable past belongs to those who doubted it.

by Christopher Lasch 1991

4.36

382 ratings

🕰️ Critique Of Modernity 🧠 Intellectual History 🎭 Cultural Criticism 🏛️ Virtue Ethics 🌾 Populism

Born Standing Up

by Steve Martin • 2007

Arrow through the head, 20,000-seat arenas, and a deliberate exit from stand-up at his peak.

3.88

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy ✍️ Comedy Writing 🏋️ Creative Discipline 🎭 Fame And Isolation 🎬 Hollywood Memoir

Born Standing Up 85%

Arrow through the head, 20,000-seat arenas, and a deliberate exit from stand-up at his peak.

by Steve Martin 2007

3.88

108k+ ratings

🎤 Stand-Up Comedy ✍️ Comedy Writing 🏋️ Creative Discipline 🎭 Fame And Isolation 🎬 Hollywood Memoir

Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy

by David Mitchell • 2019

The internet, Brexit, and everything else a British comedian finds disastrous and hilarious.

3.67

5k+

🎭 Political Satire 🗣️ Social Commentary 🇬🇧 British Humor 📰 Column Collections 🔒 Digital Privacy

Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy Summary

Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy 85%

The internet, Brexit, and everything else a British comedian finds disastrous and hilarious.

by David Mitchell 2019

3.67

5k+ ratings

🎭 Political Satire 🗣️ Social Commentary 🇬🇧 British Humor 📰 Column Collections 🔒 Digital Privacy

The White Album

by Joan Didion • 1979

A writer, a psychiatric breakdown, and the California essays that defined an unraveling decade.

4.02

51k+

🔍 Cultural Criticism 📰 New Journalism ✌️ Sixties Counterculture 🎬 Hollywood Culture 🌴 California Noir

The White Album 85%

A writer, a psychiatric breakdown, and the California essays that defined an unraveling decade.

by Joan Didion 1979

4.02

51k+ ratings

🔍 Cultural Criticism 📰 New Journalism ✌️ Sixties Counterculture 🎬 Hollywood Culture 🌴 California Noir

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