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Disquiet, Please!: More Humor Writing from The New Yorker
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The New Yorker is, of course, a bastion of superb essays, influential investigative journalism, and insightful arts criticism. But for eighty years, it’s also been a hoot. In fact, when Harold Ross founded the legendary magazine in 1925, he called it “a comic weekly,” and while it has grown into much more, it has also remained true to its original mission. Now an uproarious ...(more)

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Consider the Lobster: And O...

By David Foster Wallace
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll...

By David Foster Wallace
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Essays That Will Get You in...

By Chris Dowhan
The 50 model essays presented in this book were written by successful Ivy League college applicants....

Eating the Dinosaur

By Chuck Klosterman
A Book of All-New Pop Culture Pieces by Chuck KlostermanChuck Klosterman has chronicled rock music, ...