The humorist shares his reflections on life, death, and laughter as he describes his decision to forgo dialysis treatments, offering insights into the art of living each day to the fullest and reminiscences about his life and career.

In an illustrated memoir, the creator of the Bloggess blog shares humorous stories from her life, including her awkward upbringing in Texas and her relationship with her husband.

"There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observation turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on the street, pedestrians being whacked over the head or gathering to watch as a man considers leaping to his death. There's a dirty joke shared...

"Citizen Cowboy is a probing biography of one of America's most influential cultural figures. Will Rogers was a youth from the Cherokee Indian Territory of Oklahoma who rose to conquer nearly every form of media and entertainment in the early twentieth century's rapidly expanding consumer society. Through vaudeville, the Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway, syndicated newspaper and magazine writing, the lecture circuit, radio, and Hollywood movies, Rogers...

In a compendium of essays and accounts of her misadventures and life experiences, the leader of the Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club covers topics ranging from bad boyfriends and jobs to embarrassing doctor visits and hangovers.

A portrait of the children's author best known for such publications as "Where the Sidewalk Ends" and "A Light in the Attic" describes his forays into songwriting and scriptwriting, his jet-setting residences throughout the country, and his complicated personality.

In Naked, Sedaris turns the current mania for the memoir on its proverbial ear, mining the exeedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique world view.

The author describes his relationships with the opposite sex, from his first kiss to getting engaged.

"As Jenny Lawson's hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken (in the best possible way), she explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty. But also with brutal humor: "Peopledo different things to distract themselves during each treatment. I embroider. It feels fitting. I'm being magnetically stabbed in the head thousands of times as I'm stabbing the embroidery myself....