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On casse des bébés, on casse des enfants. On fabrique des petits qui, à trois ans, ne parlent pas mais ânonnent des bouts de comptines en anglais ou répètent le nom de personnages de dessins animés. Des nourrissons qui, faute de paroles et de regards qui leur soient adressés, se désintéressent du monde qui les entoure. On casse des bébés, on casse des enfants en leur donnant un écran pour nounou matin, midi et soir : au moment de s'habiller, de manger, de s'endormir, de calmer une colère ou un chagrin.

Un vieux, un jeune – un conteur, un auditeur – des heures d'un travail routinier, propice aux histoires et aux réflexions. La table est mise pour ces courts essais anecdotiques. Que peut bien raconter le concierge d'un évêché, dans le Témiscamingue ontarien des années soixante?

New York Times bestseller. In this collection of personal essays, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals stories about life, love, and working as a woman in Hollywood—along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the new Gilmore Girls, where she plays the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore once again. With a new bonus chapter.

A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Can't Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers and cashiers with 6-inch fingernails.

Je m'adresse aux essoufflés. À ceux qui ont tout essayé. Aux épuisés qui poursuivent le bonheur sans jamais l'atteindre. Ce livre n'est pas une méthode, mais le reflet d'une époque, une pause salutaire dans le tumulte. C'est une invitation à réinventer notre manière de vivre.

"[A] deliciously dry, moody essay collection" about America's obsession with violence against women is "a lyrical meditation" (Carina Chocano – New York Times Book Review). In this poignant collection, Alice Bolin examines iconic American works from the essays of Joan Didion and James Baldwin to Twin Peaks, Britney Spears, and Serial – illuminating the widespread obsession with women who are abused, killed, and disenfranchised, and whose bodies (dead and alive) are used as props to bolster men's stories.

New York Times bestseller • In these hilarious essays, the Saturday Night Live head writer and Weekend Update co-anchor learns how to take a beating. “I always wanted to punch his face before I read this book. Now I just want to kick him in the balls.”—Larry David. Named one of the best books of the year by Cosmopolitan, Vulture, and Parade. If there’s one trait that makes someone well suited to comedy, it’s being able to take a punch—metaphorically and, occasionally, physically.

"A tender, beautifully written essay collection that is about so much more than parenting a child with a disability." — Erin Pepler, author of Send Me Into The Woods Alone. A raw and intimate portrait of family, love, life, relationships, and disability parenting through the eyes of a mother to a daughter with Down syndrome. With the arrival of her daughter with Down syndrome, Adelle Purdham began unpacking a lifetime of her own ableism. In a society where people with disabilities remain largely invisible, what does it mean to parent such a child?

My Works, Ye Mighty expands upon the conceptual literature of Christian Bök, particularly his ongoing project, The Xenotext. Based on work conducted during his tenure as Writer-in-Residence at Athabasca University, this essay addresses the concept of "scale" in poetry, meditating on it with an abundance of imagery. The essay appears alongside an epic poem specially written by Bök for this publication.

A Sixties Scoop survivor's journey back to her Nation and the truth of who she is. Otipemisiwak is a Plains Cree word describing the Métis, meaning "the people who own themselves." Andrea Currie was born into a Métis family with a strong lineage of warriors, land protectors, writers, artists, and musicians—all of which was lost to her when she was adopted as an infant into a white family with no connection to her people. It was 1960, and the Sixties Scoop was in full swing.