Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • The Fish's Eye

    Essays About Angling and the Outdoors

    by Ian Frazier ...
    In The Fish's Eye: Essays about Angling and the Outdoors, Ian Frazier "A Great Storyteller" ( Newsweek), and one of the "American Originals" ( Washington Post Book World) explores his lifelong passion for fishing, fish, and the aquatic world.He sees the angler's environment all around him-in New York's Grand Central Station, in the cement-lined pond of a city park, in a shimmering bonefish flat in ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Coyote V. Acme

    by Ian Frazier ...
    Twenty-two side-splitting essays including The New Yorker magazine article that's the basis for the live-action animated comedy Coyote vs Acme .The title essay of Coyote v. Acme, Frazier's second collection of humorous essays, imagines the opening statement of an attorney representing cartoon character Wile E. Coyote in a product liability suit against the Acme Company... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Lamentations of the Father

    Essays

    by Ian Frazier ...
    A collection from the Thurber Prize Winner for American Humor—the author of Dating Your Mom and Coyote v. Acme ."Ian Frazier is an antidote for the blues." — The Boston GlobeWhen The Atlantic Monthly celebrated its 150th anniversary by publishing excerpts from the best writing ever to appear in the magazine, in the cat... ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Snakes That Ate Florida

    Reporting, Essays, and Criticism

    by Ian Frazier ...
    Selected pieces on nature, history, politics, and urban culture from a master of the nonfiction narrative.Writing on subjects as diverse as the megafires that burned the grasslands of the Great Plains in 2018, the tragic secret life of the manufacturer of maraschino cherries, the world’s largest beaver dam, and the invasive Burmese pythons of the Florida Everglades, Ian Frazier captures the ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Paradise Bronx

    The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough

    by Ian Frazier ...
    Ian Frazier’s magnum opus: a love song to New York City’s most heterogeneous and alive borough.For the past fifteen years, Ian Frazier has been walking the Bronx. Paradise Bronx reveals the amazingly rich and tumultuous history of this amazingly various piece of our greatest city. From Jonas Bronck, who bought land from the local Native Americans, to the formerly gang-wracked South Bronx that gave ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • On the Rez

    by Ian Frazier ...
    A great writer's journey of exploration in an American place that is both strange and deeply familiar.In Ian Frazier's bestselling Great Plains, he described meeting a man in New York City named Le War Lance, "an Oglala Sioux Indian from Oglala, South Dakota." In On the Rez, Frazier returns to the plains and focuses on a place at their center-the Pine Ridge Reservation in the prairie and badlands ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Travels in Siberia

    by Ian Frazier ...
    A Dazzling Russian travelogue from the bestselling author of Great PlainsIn his astonishing new work, Ian Frazier, one of our greatest and most entertaining storytellers, trains his perceptive, generous eye on Siberia, the storied expanse of Asiatic Russia whose grim renown is but one explanation among hundreds for the region's fascinating, enduring appeal. In Travels in Siberia, Frazier reveals ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Hogs Wild

    Selected Reporting Pieces

    by Ian Frazier ...
    "A master of both distilled insight and utter nonsense" (The Believer), Ian Frazier is one of the most gifted chroniclers of contemporary America. Hogs Wild assembles a decade's worth of his finest essays and reportage, and demonstrates the irrepressible passions and artful digressions that distinguish his enduring body of work.Part muckraker, part adventurer, and part raconteur, Frazier beholds, ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Great Plains

    by Ian Frazier ...
    National BestsellerMost travelers only fly over the Great Plains--but Ian Frazier, ever the intrepid and wide-eyed wanderer, is not your average traveler. A hilarious and fascinating look at the great middle of our nation.With his unique blend of intrepidity, tongue-in-cheek humor, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey of more than 25,000 miles up and down and across the vast and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Family

    by Ian Frazier ...
    With wit and an unerring eye for detail, acclaimed author Ian Frazier takes readers on a journey through his family's story, his nation's history, and himselfUsing letters and other family documents, Frazier reconstructs two hundred years of middle-class life, visiting small towns his ancestors lived in, reading books they read, and discovering the larger forces of history that affected them. He ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Cranial Fracking

    by Ian Frazier ...
    Dispatches from the front lines of American culture by the great humoristIan Frazier, "America's greatest essayist" ( Los Angeles Times), has gathered his insights on the most urgent issues of today in Cranial Fracking. From climate change (what did Al Gore say at his colloquium on the rising temperatures in Hell?) to the state of culture (what do you do when you're afflicted with Loss of Funding? ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days

    A Novel

    by Ian Frazier ...
    Based on his widely read columns for The New Yorker, Ian Frazier's uproarious first novel, The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days, centers on a profoundly memorable character, sprung from an impressively fertile imagination. Structured as a daybook of sorts, the book follows the Cursing Mommy—beleaguered wife of Larry and mother of two boys, twelve and eight—as she tries (more or less) valiantly to ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD