I Love You More Than You Know
by Jonathan Ames | 
Wallflower at the Orgy
by Nora Ephron | 
Half Empty
by David Rakoff | 
Fraud
by David Rakoff | 
I Was Told There'd Be Cake
by Sloane Crosley | 
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
by Samantha Irby | 
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
by Sarah Vowell | 
How Did You Get This Number
by Sloane Crosley | 
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
by David Sedaris | 
The Wordy Shipmates
by Sarah Vowell | 
We Learn Nothing
by Tim Kreider | 
Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog
by Lisa Scottoline | 
Look Alive Out There
by Sloane Crosley | 
My Misspent Youth
by Meghan Daum | 
How to Write An Autobiographical Novel
by Alexander Chee | 
The Wrong Way to Save Your Life
by Megan Stielstra | 
The Unspeakable
by Meghan Daum | 
Unfamiliar Fishes
by Sarah Vowell | 
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
by Sarah Vowell | 
Assassination Vacation
by Sarah Vowell |
is a moving and wickedly funny collection of personal stories stretching across the immense landscape of the American scene. Vowell tackles subjects such as identity, politics, religion, art, and history with a biting humor. She searches the streets of Hoboken for traces of the town's favorite son, Frank Sinatra. She goes under cover of heavy makeup in an investigation of goth culture, blasts cannonballs into a hillside on a father-daughter outing, and maps her family's haunted history on a road trip down the Trail of Tears. Vowell has an irresistible voice - caustic and sympathetic, insightful and double-edged - that has attracted a loyal following for her magazine writing and radio monologues on