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The Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679761808Author Fran LebowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
The Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz 9780349015880
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.93Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City.'The... -
The Fran Lebowitz Reader: The Sunday Times Bestseller Fran Lebowitz 9780349019628
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Contrary to what many of you might imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to actually sit down and write... -
Do You Think Your Mother Would Like Me? by Fran Lebowitz 9780982434345
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982434345Author Fran LebowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint -
I Love(ish) New York: Tales of City Life by Ali Solomon
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.71There is no city quite like New York City, for better or worse. I LOVE(ISH) NEW YORK is a hilarious relatable collection of essays, illustrations, and cartoons about the always interesting, sometimes... -
Intimacy Idiot by Isaac Oliver 9781476746678
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £10.74From an award-winning playwright "who splits the difference between David Rakoff and Larry David" (New York magazine)-a "compulsively readable debut" (Time Out New York) of big-hearted,... -
Crackpot: The Obsessions of by John Waters 9780743246279
Booksplease Price: £14.65Waters dispenses useful advice: how not to make a movie, how to become famous, how to have a sense of humour even if you've been sentenced to life in prison, and perhaps most appropriately, how to... -
The Wonderful World that Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek Andrew Durbin 9781803512136
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.91The work of photographer Peter Hujar defined downtown New York in the 1970s and 1980s. Paul Thek was an American sculptor and painter. Hujar and Thek met in 1956 and shared a strong intellectual and... -
Wise Words from Bookish Women: Smart and sassy life advice by Harper by Design 9781460760628
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63This uplifting collection celebrates inspiring bookish women the world over and their thoughts on life, love, politics, education and beyond. This uplifting collection celebrates inspiring bookish... -
The Most of Nora Ephron: The ultimate anthology of essays, articles and extracts from her greatest work, with a foreword by Candice Carty-Williams Nora Ephron 9781804991381
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15A NEW, REVISED EDITION OF THE ULTIMATE NORA EPHRON COLLECTION, PACKED WITH WIT, WISDOM AND COMFORT, WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS'The perfect introduction to the iconic writer'... -
The Collected Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of the Jazz Age in her poetry and prose, and The Collected Dorothy Parker includes an introduction by Brendan Gill in Penguin... -
BUtterfield 8 by John O'Hara
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'More than any other American novelist, O'Hara has both reflected his times and captured the unique individual for generations to come' LA Times'On this Sunday morning in May, this girl who was later... -
Cocktail Hour: A Mixer of Quips and Quotations by Jess Brallier 9781504090391
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £11.84A collection of quotes on drinking from more than one hundred of the greatest thinkers (or drinkers) in history, sure to entertain, inspire, or enlighten. US President Herbert Hoover called the... -
Face to Face: Portraits of Artists by Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe, and Catherine Opie Helen Molesworth 9781913620905
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £34.24Face to Face presents a selection of portraits of artists by three of the most prominent portrait artists of our time. Bringing together the diverse and distinctive work of Tacita Dean, Brigitte... -
Hujar:Contact by Joel Smith 9781917651479
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £54.08Hujar:Contact explores the Morgan Library & Museum’s extensive archive of original contact sheets and job books made by the beloved photographer Peter Hujar between 1954 and 1987, which come together... -
Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940 by Jed Perl
RRP: £37.50Booksplease Price: £35.18The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor. In this beautifully written, deeply researched book Jed Perl shows how Alexander Calder became an avant-garde artist with... -
Jonathan Becker: Lost Time Jonathan Becker 9781838668716
RRP: £79.95Booksplease Price: £53.59The first retrospective monograph on photographer Jonathan Becker, one of the great visual storytellers of our time Over the course of five decades, Jonathan Becker has produced a body of... -
Hail to Thee Okoboji U!: A Humor Anthology on Higher Education by Mark C. Ebersole 9780823213849
Booksplease Price: £38.54Hail to Thee, Okoboji U! is a collection of articles, stories, poems, and cartoons that pokes irreverent fun at higher education. Nothing is sacrosanct; everything is fair game: admissions... -
Hail to Thee Okoboji U!: A Humor Anthology on Higher Education by Mark C. Ebersole 9780823213832
Booksplease Price: £84.23Hail to Thee, Okoboji U! is a collection of articles, stories, poems, and cartoons that pokes irreverent fun at higher education. Nothing is sacrosanct; everything is fair game: admissions... -
Wilhelmina: Defining beauty by Eric Wilson 9780847848607
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £43.30For fifty years, some of the most beautiful people in the world have passed through the doors of the Wilhelmina modelling agency. Through its storied trajectory, the agency has worked with the world... -
Holocaust Girls: History, Memory, and Other Obsessions by S. L. Wisenberg 9780803298668
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.80This bracing and vivid collection of essays gives voice to what some American Jews feel but don't express about their uneasy state of mind. These essays creatively and sometimes audaciously address... -
Blonde Like Me: The Roots of the Blonde Myth in Our Culture by Natalia Ilyin 9780684852140
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68In this irreverant, unsparing and witty look at our cultural obsession with blonde, Natalia Ilyin shows us that our apparently modern fixation has truly primeval roots. Highlighting cultural... -
A Rage to Live by John O'Hara
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'O'Hara is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to Henry James, or France to Proust' The New York TimesWhen the beautiful,... -
The Women Who Made New York by Hallie Heald
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.40Read any history of New York City and you will read about men. You will read about men who were political leaders and men who were activists and cultural tastemakers. These men have been lauded for... -
The Disco Files 1973-78 by Vince Aletti
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £19.08A new edition of the essential chronicle of disco culture In 1973, Vince Aletti became the first person to write about the emerging disco scene. His engagement with disco nightlife continued... -
Stepping Out with Scott and Zelda: A Walking Tour Through the Fitzgeralds' Montgomery by Maire Martello 9781588384508
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £8.72At various periods in their lives, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald called Montgomery, Alabama their home. With Stepping Out with Scott and Zelda, you have a handy guide for touring the city and seeing... -
Barrel Fever by David Sedaris
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz and the National Enquirer, Sedaris's collection of stories and essays is a rollicking... -
Karl Lagerfeld: A Fashion History MARIE OTTAVI 9780847834594
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £26.08Unlike other recent books about Lagerfeld, this account is based upon interviews with Karl himself and is further enriched with additional material from interviews and testimonies from colleagues,... -
To Life: Jews Exploring Nature Joel Greenberg 9781978844483
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.31To Life explores the Jewish relationship with nature by illuminating significant Jewish thinkers who increased in important ways our understanding of various aspects of natural history. In eight... -
To Life: Jews Exploring Nature Joel Greenberg 9781978844490
Booksplease Price: £105.32To Life explores the Jewish relationship with nature by illuminating significant Jewish thinkers who increased in important ways our understanding of various aspects of natural history. In eight... -
People Who Live Alone Talk Too Much by Sofi Stambo 9781632064172
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.24Winner of the 2024 Kellman Prize for Immigrant LiteratureWith the puckish humor of Fran Lebowitz and the keen inventiveness of Lydia Davis, Sofi Stambo's debut collection leans into curiosity,... -
Constant Reader: The New Yorker Pieces about Books and People and the Rigors of Reviewing 1927-28 by Dorothy Parker 9781961341258
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.92When, in 1927, Dorothy Parker became a book critic for the New Yorker, she was already a legendary wit, a much-quoted member of the Algonquin Round Table, and an arbiter of literary taste. In the... -
James Purdy: Life of a Contrarian Writer by Michael Snyder
RRP: £33.49Booksplease Price: £31.27A definitive biography of a twentieth century gay author whose work has recently been rediscovered and enjoys a cult following. One of the most iconoclastic twentieth-century American novelists,... -
What Would Lynne Tillman Do? by Lynne Tillman 9781935869214
Booksplease Price: £17.22Here is an American mind contemplating contemporary society and culture with wit, imagination, and a brave intelligence. Tillman upends expectations, shifts tone, introduces characters, breaches...