The book of (more) delights / Ross Gay.

Gay, Ross, 1974- author.

Book

First edition.

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

xiv, 288 pages ; 19 cm

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

Gay, Ross, 1974- -- Anecdotes.

Joy -- Anecdotes.

Happiness -- Anecdotes.

Essays.

Anecdotes.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-288).

Ohioana Book Award finalist, Nonfiction 2024

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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