How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself
By Robert Paul Smith
Illustrated by Elinor Goulding Smith
Introduction by Paul Collins
March 2010

New York Times Best-seller

How to Do Nothing literally tells "how to do nothing with nobody all alone by yourself"— real things, fascinating things, the things that you did when you were a kid, or your parents did when they were kids. This is a book to free your kid from video games for a few hours, a handbook on the avoidance of boredom, a primer on the uses of solitude, a child's declaration of independence.

"Every great book reminds us that we're all alone in the world. At least this one provides us with the means to entertain ourselves while we're here."
—Lemony Snicket

Call It What You Want
By Keith Lee Morris
April 2010

In this stunning story collection inhabited by dreams and disappointments, good intentions and small triumphs, Keith Lee Morris chronicles the lives of men lost in the liminal spaces between adolescence and adulthood.

“Here are thirteen manic, beautiful stories, each centered around working men, dads, and boys, all of them broken or on the edge of breaking. Each bears witness to fragility, confusion, and beauty. Each is quietly brilliant.”
—Anthony Doerr, author of The Shell Collector

Agaat
By Marlene van Nierkerk
Translated by Michiel Heyns
May 2010

“I was immediately mesmerized . . . Its beauty matches its depth and her achievement is as brilliant as it is haunting.”
—Toni Morrison

Set in apartheid South Africa, Agaat portrays the unique, forty-year relationship between Milla, a sixty-seven-year-old white woman, and her black maidservant turned caretaker, Agaat. With haunting, lyrical prose, Marlene van Niekerk creates a story about love and loyalty.

The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto
By Bernard DeVoto
Introduction by Daniel Handler
June 2010

One part celebration, one part history, two parts manifesto, Bernard DeVoto’s The Hour is a comic and unequivocal treatise on how and why we drink—properly. The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author turns his shrewd wit on the spirits and attitudes that cause his stomach to turn and his eyes to roll (Warning: this book is NOT for rum drinkers).

"The Hour is not simply a piece of humorous cultural patriotism either. It is a manual of witchcraft, a book of spells and observances."
—Wallace Stegner, author of Angle of Repose