The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy is back with exactly the book we need in these unsettling times.
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Contents
1. My Birthday, Again
2. The Wide Berth
3. Jeff Being Jeff
4. Communal Walking Stick
5. The Perfect Notebook
6. The Perfect Spoon (or Cup)
7. The Clothesline
8. Free Stuff
9. Daisy Returns
10. Alright Baby!
11. The Full Moon!
12. Shortcut
13. Babies Again (Seriously)
14. Animalympics
15. Under the Table
16. Hole in the Head, Redux; Coda: Negreeting
17. The Lady in the Tree
18. The Lady on the Porch
19. How Good It Feels
20. Braces on Adults
21. (Foot-End- Etc.) Notes
22. Dream Dancing
23. Sweet Potato Harvest
24. Squirrel in a Pumpkin
25. Blue-Spectacle Tulips Hearty to Zone 4
26. Snoopy
27. One Million Kisses
28. Honey Buns
29. Lyrica
30. Vernacular Driving
31. As Is My Mother’s Way Sometimes
32. Goodbye Nana
33. Unusual Mailbox
34. Boom: Here’s Loo
35. Gnomes
36. OREO Speedwagon
37. Dad in Dream Unaging
38. My Neighbor’s Face
39. Scarecrow the World
40. Michael McDonald
41. Mistranscription
42. DeBarge on Tiny Desk
43. Garlic Sprouting
44. Being Read To
45. Gucci
46. Helmets Free
47. The Complimentary Function
48. Early!
49. Be Direct
50. Imposter (Syndrome)
51. The Tagolog Word for Which
52. Truly Overnight Sometimes It Seems
53. Not This Dog
54. I’d Prefer Not To
55. Improvised Pocket Parks
56. The Purple Iris Angel
57. Tag and Such
58. Paper Menus (and Cash!)
59. Eat Candy! Destroy the State!
60. At the End of a Photoshoot with my Friend
61. Friends Let Us Do Our Best Not to Leave This Life Having Not Loved What We Love Enough
62. The Door
63. The Minor Cordiality
64. Small Fluffy Things
65. Riiiiiita, Riiiiiiita!
66. Hands for Carrying
67. Mulberry Picking
68. Garlic Harvest (NC-17)
69. Sunflower in the Mortar
70. Yellowjackets
71. The Courtesy of Truckers
72. How Literature Saved My Life
73. Hickies, Ostentatiously Blandished
74. Dream Redux
75. Angels All
76. Sunergos
77. Hugging in the Co-Op
78. Throwing Children
79. The Cave City Watermelon Festival
80. “To Respect Each Other’s Madness and Right to Be Wrong”
81. My Birthday, Again
Acknowledgments
An Appendix of Brief Delights
For Further Reading
"Another startling, sensuous collection of miniature essays... again and again, joy wins out over despair as Gay pays tribute to a world of people "'bumbling, flailing, hurting, failing, changing.'"—Booklist
“Keenly observed and delivered with deftness, these essays are a testament to the artfulness of attention and everyday joy.”—Kirkus Reviews
"Ross Gay is back, better than ever . . . This time he swings his basket higher, slower, for a whole new bevy of brainy and witty noticings."?—Garden & Gun
Contents
1. My Birthday, Again
2. The Wide Berth
3. Jeff Being Jeff
4. Communal Walking Stick
5. The Perfect Notebook
6. The Perfect Spoon (or Cup)
7. The Clothesline
8. Free Stuff
9. Daisy Returns
10. Alright Baby!
11. The Full Moon!
12. Shortcut
13. Babies Again (Seriously)
14. Animalympics
15. Under the Table
16. Hole in the Head, Redux; Coda: Negreeting
17. The Lady in the Tree
18. The Lady on the Porch
19. How Good It Feels
20. Braces on Adults
21. (Foot-End- Etc.) Notes
22. Dream Dancing
23. Sweet Potato Harvest
24. Squirrel in a Pumpkin
25. Blue-Spectacle Tulips Hearty to Zone 4
26. Snoopy
27. One Million Kisses
28. Honey Buns
29. Lyrica
30. Vernacular Driving
31. As Is My Mother’s Way Sometimes
32. Goodbye Nana
33. Unusual Mailbox
34. Boom: Here’s Loo
35. Gnomes
36. OREO Speedwagon
37. Dad in Dream Unaging
38. My Neighbor’s Face
39. Scarecrow the World
40. Michael McDonald
41. Mistranscription
42. DeBarge on Tiny Desk
43. Garlic Sprouting
44. Being Read To
45. Gucci
46. Helmets Free
47. The Complimentary Function
48. Early!
49. Be Direct
50. Imposter (Syndrome)
51. The Tagolog Word for Which
52. Truly Overnight Sometimes It Seems
53. Not This Dog
54. I’d Prefer Not To
55. Improvised Pocket Parks
56. The Purple Iris Angel
57. Tag and Such
58. Paper Menus (and Cash!)
59. Eat Candy! Destroy the State!
60. At the End of a Photoshoot with my Friend
61. Friends Let Us Do Our Best Not to Leave This Life Having Not Loved What We Love Enough
62. The Door
63. The Minor Cordiality
64. Small Fluffy Things
65. Riiiiiita, Riiiiiiita!
66. Hands for Carrying
67. Mulberry Picking
68. Garlic Harvest (NC-17)
69. Sunflower in the Mortar
70. Yellowjackets
71. The Courtesy of Truckers
72. How Literature Saved My Life
73. Hickies, Ostentatiously Blandished
74. Dream Redux
75. Angels All
76. Sunergos
77. Hugging in the Co-Op
78. Throwing Children
79. The Cave City Watermelon Festival
80. “To Respect Each Other’s Madness and Right to Be Wrong”
81. My Birthday, Again
Acknowledgments
An Appendix of Brief Delights
For Further Reading
"Another startling, sensuous collection of miniature essays... again and again, joy wins out over despair as Gay pays tribute to a world of people "'bumbling, flailing, hurting, failing, changing.'"—Booklist
“Keenly observed and delivered with deftness, these essays are a testament to the artfulness of attention and everyday joy.”—Kirkus Reviews
"Ross Gay is back, better than ever . . . This time he swings his basket higher, slower, for a whole new bevy of brainy and witty noticings."?—Garden & Gun
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