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A massive volume of verse, The Norton Poetry Collection is the highly anticipated collection of selected poems by Emmy Award winning author and critically acclaimed poet Jack Norton. This curated collection includes poems written over nearly two decades and shows a raw talent refined over the years...a study in how Jack Norton became what one critic hailed as "the poet's poet". Raw, deep and profound - these poems bleed unflinching truths ...

Bookish freshman Melanie feels alone on the campus of Arizona's Cactus State University. She misses her rural Iowa home. That is, until she meets her academic advisor - Dr. Armando Fontaine. Distinguished and decades older, Dr. Fontaine's interest in his promising young student is taboo - even for a college nicknamed "Forbidden University"! Pushing the boundaries of love, can the wholesome young student and her charming poetry professor keep...

Forgotten Stars is the highly anticipated collection of new poems from Emmy Award winning author and critically acclaimed poet Jack Norton. Raw, deep and profound - these poems bleed unflinching truths direct from the typewriter of a keen observer of the human condition. As author Nick Tosches once wrote, "Jack Norton is my hope for the future of America.

Do you want to take back your life and be more safe and secure? Do you dream of having strong privacy online and in your everyday life? This book will show you how. The Successful Privacy Mindset is for anyone that has ever felt watched, ever felt that their privacy has been compromised or for anyone that has ever felt less than safe and secure. You deserve to feel safe at all times! If you are a survivor of an assault, rape, mugging, st...

Meaning In The Meaningless is an inspirational collection of musings on the power of living in the present moment and other random thoughts from a writer's life. Emmy Award winning and bestselling author Jack Norton offers insights into peace, serenity and living a spiritual life - from the perspective of an artist working as an author, filmmaker and musician. Part devotional, part diary, all soulful...this book is funny, thought provoking...

Theodore Turner led a vibrant life: dreams, ambitions, hobbies, friends, a career and a sprawling plantation estate. Since the war (and the tragedy soon after), the old Theodore was dead and gone. Perhaps he was the true ghost of Turner Manor? No! He was living in some kind of purgatory, a strange parallel universe where none of what used to be was still allowed to exist. He simply floated and flickered through his days: life becoming just a s...

Room To Bop: A Jack Norton Reader is a curated collection of writings by Emmy Award winning and bestselling author Jack Norton. This collection highlights Norton's wide literary range, from short fiction ("Rednecks and Longnecks") to steamy erotica ("Bible Study Girls Gone Bad" and "Ejackulation: Sexy Confessions of Teenage Love"), memoir ("Two Stalkers One Goal") to nonfiction ("Cornstars: Rube Music In Swing Time") as well as poetry ("Nico...

Backgrounds" includes essays on Wilde and the 1890s by prominent cultural critics Karl Beckson, Sharon Marcus, and Michael Patrick Gillespie. "Early Reviews and Reactions" collects contemporary responses to The Importance of Being Earnest, including George Bernard Shaw's famous dissenting review and other commentary by H. G. Wells, Hamilton Fyfe, and William Archer. "Essays in Criticism" includes seven diverse assessments-six of them new to th...

Flicker is a book of scraps - "mad little things, with no real reason for being" - from critically acclaimed poet Jack Norton. This fictitious memoir (of sorts) is a chronicle of life on the road from a character living with untreated Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder). Presented in non-linear fashion, there are montage flickers of moments, life scenes, drunken notes and fragments of reality and illusions. Brill...

Warning: reading this book has been known to cause eye rolls, sighs of disgust and severe allergic reactions to those with a distaste for corn. Sit back, relax and get ready to laugh your butt off at this horribly bad collection of dad jokes, redneck puns and classic one liners. You'll be the coolest dad at the barbeque, the silliest guy in the office or the most loved (hated?) neighbor on the block if you use these jokes in your everyday li...

The city had spit Lou out like an unwanted piece of flavorless chewing gum. Even by Baltimore standards, he is a low-life thug. Clara is a mysterious girl with agoraphobia and memories that come as quick snapshots of a former life. Svalbard, Norway is considered one of the most inhospitable and remote locations on earth. It's almost as inhospitable as the streets of Baltimore. Trained to be a killing machine, Clara has her heart set…on revenge...

Emmy Award winning artist Kitty Norton found success while still in high school as a session vocalist at Prince's Paisley Park Studios, and was signed to a recording contract before she graduated. What looked to be a promising career in pop music was cut short by a debilitating car accident. Bedridden for over a year, the former cheerleader and model had ballooned to 515 pounds. Yes, 515 pounds. How did this disabled, stay-at-home, self-employ...

What good are the arts? Why should we care about the past? For millennia, humanity has sought to understand and transmit to future generations not just the "know-how" of life, but the "know-why"-the meaning and purpose of our existence, as expressed in art, architecture, religion, and philosophy. This crucial passing down of knowledge has required the radical integration of insights from the past and from other cultures. In Culture, acclaimed ...

How would Saturn's rings look from a spaceship sailing just above them? If you were falling into a black hole, what's the last thing you'd see before your spaghettification? What would it be like to visit the faraway places we currently experience only through high-powered telescopes and robotic emissaries? Faster-than-light travel may never be invented, but we can still take the scenic route through the universe with renowned astronomer and s...

A new industrial revolution has begun. Like mechanization or electricity before it, artificial intelligence will touch every aspect of our lives-and cause profound disruptions in the balance of global power, especially among the AI superpowers: China, the United States, and Europe. Autonomous weapons expert Paul Scharre takes readers inside the fierce competition to develop and implement this game-changing technology and dominate the future. F...

As founder of much-loved The White Moustache Yogurt company, Homa Dashtaki employs the same traditionally Iranian methods of making yogurt that her family has for generations in her kitchen today. Her passion culminates in inspiring the use of a new ingredient: whey, the liquid gold extracted from straining homemade yogurt. Across 100 recipes ranging from ancient see-rogh to rum cocktails, ghormeh sabzi to lemon meringue pie, Dashtaki weaves i...

The digital era is beset by distraction, and it feels like things are only getting worse. At times like these, the distant past beckons as a golden age of attention. We fantasize about escaping our screens. We dream of recapturing the quiet of a world with less noise. We imagine retreating into solitude and singlemindedness, almost like latter-day monks. But although we think of early monks as master concentrators, a life of mindfulness did n...

Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the banality of modern city life. First published in 1857, the book that collected these poems together, Les Fleurs du mal, was an instant sensation-earning Baudelaire plaudits and, simultaneously, ...

For decades, Adam Gopnik has been one of our most beloved writers, a brilliantly perceptive critic of art, food, France, and more. But recently, he became obsessed by a fundamental matter: How did the people he was writing about learn their outlandish skill, whether it was drawing a nude or baking a sourdough loaf? In The Real Work-his title the term magicians use for the accumulated craft that makes for a great trick-Gopnik apprentices himsel...

As a girl and as part of an ethnic minority in Afghanistan, Freshta Tori Jan was persecuted relentlessly. Her family faced kidnappings and daily murder attempts on the bus, on the way to school, in the workplace, and beyond. Freshta's school was shut down by the Taliban, and many of her friends were murdered and shot. Her journey through poverty, terrorism, and other forms of injustice has enabled her to be a voice for those unable to share th...