Humor Essays
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2009-05-03 | Author:David Sedaris [SEDARIS, DAVID]

c.o.g. The bus from North Carolina to Oregon takes four days, which breaks down to roughly seventy-five thousand hours if one is traveling without the aid of a strong animal ...
( Category: Satire June 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-29 | Author:David Sedaris

October 14, 1991 New York Lisa got married on Saturday afternoon on top of Eaglenest Mountain. I’d worried it might be sort of hokey, but in fact it was nice ...
( Category: United States June 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-01 | Author:Geraldine DeRuiter

1. I was drunk on sangria. 2. Peeing all over the place made me feel a lot better. 3. I didn’t kill anyone. 4. I screw up a lot (see ...
( Category: Satire May 21,2017 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Joey Graceffa [Graceffa, Joey]

FOR A MOMENT I can’t breathe. More second children? A family of them? “Are you strong enough to move?” I nod vigorously. If it means meeting more second children, I’m ...
( Category: Science Fiction March 22,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-11-28 | Author:Caitlin Moran

Slash & Burn—My Life with Cystitis Of course, you don’t need the entire Internet to bring you low, if you’re a woman. Sometimes, your urethra will do that for you. ...
( Category: Women March 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-24 | Author:Zarqa Nawaz [Nawaz, Zarqa]

Coming Full Circle on Circumcision I held my newborn son for the first time. He was rounder and calmer than his sisters but had the same intoxicating odour of a ...
( Category: Women February 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-02-24 | Author:Tal Ben-Shahar

The Underprivilege of Privilege Samuel Smiles, father of the modern self-help movement, wrote in 1858 that "every youth should be made to feel that his happiness and well-doing in life ...
( Category: Applied Psychology February 25,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-05 | Author:Jen Lancaster [Lancaster, Jen]

14. SPRING FEVER “I said, ‘I’m sorry, I’m not giving up my underpants. I know that I’m supposed to, but I refuse and you can’t make me.’” “You fought with ...
( Category: Women January 18,2016 )
epub |eng | 1999-04-01 | Author:G. K. Chesterton [Chesterton, G. K.]

* * * VII. THE MODERN SURRENDER OF WOMAN But in this corner called England, at this end of the century, there has happened a strange and startling thing. Openly ...
( Category: History & Theory October 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-17 | Author:Max Beerbohm,Phillip Lopate

DIMINUENDO In the year of grace 1890, and in the beautiful autumn of that year, I was a freshman at Oxford. I remember how my tutor asked me what lectures ...
( Category: European June 12,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-04-20 | Author:Osborne, Steve [Osborne, Steve]

8. Stockbroker I was hanging out behind the desk in the Ninth Precinct staring up at the clock. It was 1:50 a.m. and in ten more minutes I could sign ...
( Category: Law Enforcement May 27,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-03-18 | Author:Bry, Dave [Bry, Dave]

COLLEGE (Or the six longest years of my life.) Dear Todd Schwartz and Chris McGuire, Sorry for spilling fruit punch all over the box of Calvin and Hobbes T-shirts you ...
( Category: Memoirs March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-28 | Author:James, Brooklyn [James, Brooklyn]

CHAPTER 14 Back at the compound, night has long since fallen along with the first significant amount of fresh white powder in the rugged mountainous terrain. Gina, Aubrey and Officer ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 4,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Roxane Gay

A Tale of Three Coming Out Stories We are still in that time in our history when public figures come out of invisible closets largely built by a public insatiable ...
( Category: Feminist November 14,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Dave Bry

COLLEGE (Or the six longest years of my life.) Dear Todd Schwartz and Chris McGuire, Sorry for spilling fruit punch all over the box of Calvin and Hobbes T-shirts you ...
( Category: Memoirs October 28,2014 )