Elif Batuman: The Idiot

Richard Ayoade: Afterthoughts

Erving Goffman: Stigma

Lydia Davis: Into the Weeds

Jonathan Lear: Imagining the End

Susan J. Brison: Aftermath

Leon Edel: The Diary of Alice James

e. e. cummings: i six nonlectures

Clare Carlisle: Transcendence for Beginners

Judith Yaross Lee: Twain's Brand

Will Rees: Hypochondria

Omri Boehm: Radical Universalism

Kate Hall: The Certainty Dream

E. E. Cummings: Selected Poems

George S. Schuyler: Black No More

Cathy Haynes: The Fullness of Time

David Graeber: The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World...

Isabel Lewis: An occasion to consider a book

Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man

Oliver Double: The Cambridge Companion to Stand-Up Comedy

Glenda A. Carpio: Laughing Fit to Kill

Jason Crawford: God's Fools

D. J. Enright: The Alluring Problem

Virginia Woolf: The Life of Violet

Jenny Erpenbeck: Things That Disappear

Jean-Paul Sartre: Being and Nothingness

Rosalind Brown: Practice

Erving Goffman: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Mark Haber: Saint Sebastian's Abyss

Jonathan Lear: A Case for Irony

Charna Halpern, Del Close, and Kim "Howard" Johnson: Truth in Comedy

Margaret Cavendish: The Blazing World

Viola Spolin: Improvisation for the Theater

Thomas C. Oden: The Humor of Kierkegaard

Richard C. Schwartz, PhD: Introduction to Internal Family Systems

Benjamin Mangrum: The Comedy of Computation

Somogy Varga: Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal

Simone de Beauvoir: The Ethics of Ambiguity

Sam Wasson: Improv Nation

Skye C. Cleary: How to Be Authentic

Sebastian Castillo: Fresh, Green Life

Howard Mumford Jones: The Pursuit of Happiness

Charles Guignon: On Being Authentic

Rosanna McLaughlin: Against Morality

Walter Benjamin: Unpacking My Library

Stephen Leacock: Humour as I See It

John Berger: A Load of Shit

Charles Taylor: The Ethics of Authenticity

Lionel Trilling: Sincerity and Authenticity

Kenneth Goldsmith: I Declare a Permanent State of Happiness