Alan Eisenstock

In Stitches

by Anthony Youn & Alan Eisenstock

Scrubs meets David Sedaris in this hilarious fish-out-of- water memoir about a young Korean-American nerd turned renowned plastic surgeon.

Tony Youn grew up one of two Asian-American kids in a small town where...

Ten on Sunday: The Secret Life of Men

by Alan Eisenstock

A moving, lyrical, eye-opening look at the true nature of intimacy among men.

The L.A. riots had an indelible effect upon the city of Los Angeles, upon the wider debate in this country about race, and especially...

Sports Talk: A Journey Inside the World of Sports Talk Radio

by Alan Eisenstock

A Journey inside the World of Sports Talk Radio

Their voices explode over the airwaves -- with names like Mike and the Mad Dog, the Stinkin' Genius, Hacksaw, and JT the Brick. They broadcast in drive time and...

Barack Like Me: The Chocolate-Covered Truth

by David Alan Grier & Alan Eisenstock

FROM GROWING UP IN DETROIT, where he marched as a ten-year-old with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to attending the inauguration of President Barack Obama, where he narrowly avoided the Purple Tunnel of Doom but...

Raiders!

by Alan Eisenstock

In 1982, in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, Chris Strompolos, eleven, asked Eric Zala, twelve, a question: “Would you like to help me do a remake Raiders of the Lost Ark?  I’m playing Indiana Jones.”

And they...

Just a Guy

by Bill Engvall & Alan Eisenstock

What does it mean to be JUST A GUY?

--A guy doesn't think before he speaks.

--Eating and sleeping always come first. Always.

--A guy may get married, but he doesn't have to like it.

--It's tough to admit, but all...

Cancer on Five Dollars a Day (chemo not included): How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life

by Robert Schimmel & Alan Eisenstock

In the spring of 2000, stand-up comedian Robert Schimmel was diagnosed with stage III non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and soon the fire of his white-hot career started to fizzle.

But Schimmel never lost his sense of...

The Kindergarten Wars: The Battle to Get into America's Best Private Schools

by Alan Eisenstock

THE KINDERGARTEN WARS is the first narrative nonfiction book ever to take the reader inside all aspects of the private school application process. Eisenstock follows several families across the country from...