Lancaster attempts to achieve cultural enlightenment, and bears witness to the hilarious missteps and genuine moments of inspiration she encounters along the way

American novelist Joan Didion's first volume of nonfiction essays, first published in 1968, consisting of twenty works that reflect the atmosphere in America during the 1960s, especially in California.

"In Naked, David Sedaris's message--alternately rendered in 'Fakespeare, ' Italian, Spanish, and pidgin Greek--is the same: pay attention to me."--Jacket.

Canadian comic actor Mike Myers writes from the heart about his native land, Canada, and what it means to be a Canadian. Actor, director and writer, Myers has often winked and nodded to Canada in his body of work, but now he turns the spotlight full-beam on his homeland. Here he provides a funny and thoughtful analysis of what makes Canada Canada, Canadians Canadians and what being Canadian has always meant to him.

"From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a collection of essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature"--

"For more than thirty years, Michael Eric Dyson has played a prominent role in the nation as a public intellectual, university professor, cultural critic, social activist and ordained Baptist minister. He has presented a rich and resourceful set of ideas about American history and culture. Now for the first time he brings together the various components of his multihued identity and eclectic pursuits. Entertaining Race is a testament to Dyson's consistent...