Daniel M. Klein

As a young college student studying philosophy, Klein filled a notebook with short quotes from the world's greatest thinkers, hoping to find some guidance on how to live the best life he could. As he revisits the wisdom he relished in his youth, each extract is annotated with Klein's inimitable charm and insights. He tackles life's biggest questions-- and leaves us chuckling and enlightened.

Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on how to Live

Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change it

The co-author of Plato and a Platypus describes how he journeyed to Greece with a suitcase full of philosophy books in order to learn how to achieve a fulfilling old age, explaining how he came to regard old age as a valuable life stage filled with simple and heady pleasures.

A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life

Travels with Epicurus

Thomas Cathcart

The best-selling authors of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar explore death and the afterlife from lighthearted philosophical, theological, and psychological perspectives that consider that death may not be such a pessimism-inducing state.

Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explain Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between

Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates

a novel

Nothing serious

A novel

Embryo

The inhabitants of Grandville are beginning to see that every event, no matter how small, influences all events that follow.

The History of Now

Le King comme vous ne l'avez jamais vu ! Le grand Elvis Presley est retourné à la vie civile dans le Tennessee après son service militaire en Allemagne. Dans un sud ségrégationniste du début années soixante, il peine à regagner son ancienne audience, encombré d'un manager machiavélique, de parasites et de copains d'enfance, quand les présidentes de ses fan-clubs, toutes des teenagers, commencent à tomber comme des mouches, tuées dans de mystérieuses conditions. Il décide d'enquêter lui-même, un vrai tour de force avec une telle célébrité. Il découvre bientôt que les victimes ont été empoisonnées selon une méthode ingénieuse, diaboliquement adaptée à chacun Malgré les risques qu'il prend dans une enquête de plus en plus dangereuse, il continue à se goinfrer de beurre de cacahuète frit et de sandwiches à la banane et il doit même passer pour une doublure lui-même ! Mais il trouve aussi de l'aide : celle de Billy, médecin autodidacte d'une petite communauté noire, celle de Selma, une infirmière douce et séduisante, sans oublier Rufus, un de ses premiers imitateurs. Va-t-il parvenir à sauver la prochaine victime ?

Kill me tender

Freke Vuijst

It's happening fast: The population of half-Jews in America is well on its way to surpassing the population of full Jews. And with this population shift has come a revolutionary transformation of what it means to be half-Jewish. Sure, some people say that you are either Jewish or not, that there's nothing in between--but the authors emphatically disagree. They say half-Jews are a unique subculture of people who draw from both sides of their heritage and synthesize their cultural halves into a remarkable new identity. The Half-Jewish Book celebrates this unique identity that until now has been ignored, maligned, and misunderstood. There's half-Jewish humor. Half-Jewish/half-Catholic Bill Maher: "I come from a mixed religious background--when I went to confession, I brought a lawyer with me." And there's half-Jewish beauty--Gwyneth Paltrow, Joan Collins, and Jane Seymour, just for starters. There are half-Jewish writers (Proust, Salinger), and half-Jewish characters in fiction by authors ranging from Philip Roth to Salman Rushdie. There's even that half-Jewish cartoon phenomenon Tommy Pickles, in Rugrats. There are half-Jewish politicians--Fiorello La Guar-dia, Barry Goldwater, Dianne Feinstein. And there are the extraordinary number of people, like General Wesley Clark, who discovered as adults that they were half-Jewish and then embraced their newfound double heritage. This book includes an eye-opening essay on half-Jewish identity and looks into the often misunderstood history of half-Jews in the Holocaust. There are original interviews with half-Jews, as well as holiday cards and menus, poetry and song lyrics, and paintings and photographs. Intelligent, exuberant, entertaining, and thought-provoking, The Half-Jewish Book is a fascinating celebration of a cultural mix that is far greater than the sum of its parts. The premise of The Half-Jewish Book is simple if somewhat controversial: Being half-Jewish is a quality unto itself, sui generis. Half-Jewishness is a cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic mix that is, in a variety of ways, greater than the sum of its parts. To take this position--and to revel in the celebration that follows from it--we stand in clear opposition to those who insist: "You are either Jewish or you are not; there's nothing in between." And we compound this blasphemy by suggesting that there is something unique, remarkable, and downright dazzling about the half-Jewish mind and the half-Jewish face, about the art and wit created by half-Jewish sensibilities, and in the ethical, literary, and political ideas produced from the half-Jewish perspective. Enough already about the "half-Jewish problem" as the tragic product of intermarriage. It is time to explore the unique and fascinating world of the half-Jew. --from the Introduction

A Celebration

The Half-Jewish Book

Thomas W. Cathcart

An uproariously funny daily inspirational guide for manly men. Ralph and Reggie—two regular, blue-collar buds from Boston—offer one-a-day mcnuggets of affirmation, inspiration, manly wisdom and earth-shaking epiphanies from the end of the bar on the inner issues that truly matter—everything from sex to sports to sex to imported vs. domestic to sex to the meaning of life.

Daniel M. Klein

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