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Book

The book of (more) delights

Author

Ross Gay

Call Number

  • 814 G2857.2 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [2023]

Physical Description

xiv, 288 pages ; 19 cm

Summary

"A collection of essays in which the author discusses the small and large things that delight him"--

Contents

  • My Birthday, Again
  • The Wide Berth
  • Jeff Being Jeff
  • Communal Walking Stick
  • The Perfect Notebook
  • The Perfect Spoon (or Cup)
  • The Clothesline
  • Free Stuff
  • Daisy Returns
  • Alright Baby!
  • The Full Moon!
  • Shortcut
  • Babies Again (Seriously)
  • Animalympics
  • Under the Table
  • Hole in the Head, Redux; Coda: Negretting
  • The Lady in the Tree
  • The Lady on the Porch
  • How Good It Feels
  • Braces on Adults
  • (Foot- End- Etc.) Notes
  • Dream Dancing
  • Sweet Potato Harvest
  • Squirrel in a Pumpkin
  • Blue-Spectacle Tulips Hearty to Zone 4
  • Snoopy
  • One Million Kisses
  • Honey Buns
  • Lyrica
  • Vernacular Driving
  • As Is My Mother's Way Sometimes
  • Goodbye Nana
  • Unusual Mailbox
  • Boom: Here's Loo
  • Gnomes
  • OREO Speedwagon
  • Dad in Dream Unaging
  • My Neighbor's Face
  • Scarecrow the World
  • Michael McDonald
  • Mistranscription
  • DeBarge on Tiny Desk
  • Garlic Sprouting
  • Being Read To
  • Gucci
  • Helmets Free
  • The Complimentary Function
  • Early!
  • Be Direct
  • Imposter (Syndrome)
  • The Tagalog Word for Which
  • Truly Overnight Sometimes It Seems
  • Not This Dog
  • I'd Prefer Not To
  • Improvised Pocket Parks
  • The Purple Iris Angel
  • Tag and Such
  • Paper Menus (and Cash!)
  • Eat Candy! Destroy the State!
  • At the End of a Photoshoot with My Friend Natasha, Walking Here and There Through the Orchard, Facing This Way, then That, in Front of the Peach Tree
  • Friends Let Us Do Our Best Not to Leave This Life Having Not Loved What We Love Enough
  • The Door
  • The Minor Codiality
  • Small Fluffy Things
  • Riiiiiita, Riiiiiiita!
  • Hands for Carrying
  • Mulberry Picking
  • Garlic Harvest (NC-17)
  • Sunflower in the Mortar
  • Yellowjackets
  • The Courtesy of Truckers
  • How Literature Saved My Life
  • Hickies, Ostentatiously Blandished
  • Dream Redux
  • Angels All
  • Sunergos
  • Hugging in the Co-Op
  • Throwing Children
  • The Cave City Watermelon Festival
  • "To Respect Each Other's Madness and Right to Be Wrong"
  • My Birthday, Again.

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