Shea Serrano

SELECTED BY PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS HE READ IN 2017 . ***No. 1 New York Times Bestseller*** ***Best Nonfiction Books of 2017 selection by Barnes & Noble*** ***Best Humor and Entertainment Books of 2017 selection by Amazon*** .Michael Jordan is the acknowledged greatest basketball player of all-time, but what season was Michael Jordan the best version of Michael Jordan? Who's in The Disrespectful Dunk Hall of Fame? What's allowed and absolutely not allowed in a game of pickup basketball? BASKETBALL (AND OTHER THINGS) presents readers with a set of pivotal and ridiculous questions from basketball history, providing arguments and answers, explained with the wit and wisdom that is unique to Shea Serrano. Serrano breaks down debates that NBA fans didn't even know they needed, from the authoritative (Which NBA championship was the most important to the league?) to the fantastical (If you could assign different values to different shots throughout basketball history, what would they be and why?), with tangents and footnotes laser-ing out in all different directions, because that's how talking about basketball works, because that's how basketball works. .With incredible art from Arturo Torres, this book is a must-have for anyone who has ever stayed up late into the night debating basketball's greatest moments, what-ifs, stories, and legends, or for those who are discovering the mythology of basketball for the first time.

The Rap Year Book takes readers on a journey that begins in 1979, widely regarded as the moment rap became recognized as part of the cultural and musical landscape, and comes right up to the present. Shea Serrano deftly pays homage to the most important song of each year. Serrano also examines the most important moments that surround the history and culture of rap music—from artists’ backgrounds to issues of race, the rise of hip-hop, and the struggles among its major players—both personal and professional. Covering East Coast and West Coast, famous rapper feuds, chart toppers, and show stoppers, The Rap Year Book is an in-depth look at the most influential genre of music to come out of the last generation. Complete with infographics, lyric maps, hilarious and informative footnotes, portraits of the artists, and short essays by other prominent music writers, The Rap Year Book is both a narrative and illustrated guide to the most iconic and influential rap songs ever created.

Shea Serrano is back, and his new book, Movies (And Other Things), combines the fury of a John Wick shootout, the sly brilliance of Regina George holding court at a cafeteria table, and the sheer power of a Denzel monologue, all into one.Movies (And Other Things) is a book about, quite frankly, movies (and other things). One of the chapters, for example, answers which race Kevin Costner was able to white savior the best, because did you know that he white saviors Mexicans in McFarland, USA, and white saviors Native Americans in Dances with Wolves, and white saviors Black people in Black or White, and white saviors the Cleveland Browns in Draft Day? Another of the chapters, for a second example, answers what other high school movie characters would be in Regina George's circle of friends if we opened up the Mean Girls universe to include other movies (Johnny Lawrence is temporarily in, Claire from The Breakfast Club is in, Ferris Bueller is out, Isis from Bring It On is out...). Another of the chapters, for a third example, creates a special version of the Academy Awards specifically for rom-coms, the most underrated movie genre of all. And another of the chapters, for a final example, is actually a triple chapter that serves as an NBA-style draft of the very best and most memorable moments in gangster movies. Many, many things happen in Movies (And Other Things), some of which funny, others of which are sad, a few of which are insightful, and all of which are handled with the type of care and dedication to the smallest details and pockets of pop culture that only a book by Shea Serrano can provide.

A hilarious story about a change in plans—the most harrowing, beautiful, and unforgettable day in the life of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Basketball (and Other Things) and his miraculous wife.Two days before Shea and Larami Serrano were to be married, four months into her pregnancy with twin boys, she went into labor. Stuck in a hospital room, fearing the worst, and dismantling a year’s worth of preparations in a matter of hours—the couple decides that the show must go on. Told from Shea’s and Larami’s dual perspectives, this memoir shows the powerful bond that can arise from adversity, a sense of humor, and mutual trust.Shea Serrano’s A Wedding Thing is part of The One, a collection of seven singularly true love stories of friendship, companionship, marriage, and moving on. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single sitting, with or without company.

HIP-HOP (AND OTHER THINGS) is the third book in the (And Other Things) series. The first two—Basketball (And Other Things) and Movies (And Other Things)—were both #1 New York Times bestsellers.

Everything you need to know is in the title and subtitle. It is, quite literally and exactly, ten illustrated essays about The Office, one of the very greatest television shows of ever. Let’s go.

Ten Illustrated Essays About Scrubs

This 64-page book serves as a guide to address the growing gap between the people who support Donald Trump and the people who do not. It is essential reading.

POST is a story about a group of friends, two of whom experience a collision two years apart.

This is a story about an alien abduction, except but the aliens this time accidentally abduct an all-caps TOUGH GUY. And shit falls apart real fast for them.That's why the tagline is: "They wanted him on their spaceship... until they got him on their spaceship."

"'Bun B's Coloring and Rap Activity Book' is evidence that C.R.E.A.M. still sometimes rises to the top." -- LA TimesRapper Bun B lends his street cred and occasionally his face to the creative, hilarious, and just flat-out fun imaginings of Shea Serrano in Bun B's Rap Coloring and Activity Book . Described by the Washington Post as "what every hip-hop head wishes they had as a child," this imaginative work started as a series of printable rap-related coloring and activity images. The 48-page, fully interactive book of coloring pages, unbelievably clever activities, and smart plays on rap culture brings these stars and their music right into your living room. Featured rappers Bun BTupacDrakeQueen LatifahJay ZTalib KweliIce-TCommonWiz KhalifaTupacLudacrisKanye WestLL COOL JBig BoiNotorious B.I.G.Childish GambinoQuestloveB.o.BMac MillerAnd many, many more!Praise for Bun B's Rap Coloring and Activity Book :"A star-studded cast of some of the biggest names in rap, all in one book." -- Fast Company 's Co.Create blog"It's 48 pages long, and that's the exact same number of pages the Bible has, and that's not an accident. That's a little thing called God's will." --Vice.com"The book is funny, smart, and as kid-tested, mother-approved as some of these guys get." --Vulture.com"Hilarious...razor sharp." -- XXL

You know how they do scouting reports for athletes? It's like that, except but it's action heroes.A 105-page digital book compatible with all computers, phones, iPads, and e-readers. It contains scouting reports for 27 different action heroes, including but not limited to Dutch from Predator, Cameron Poe from Con Air, John McClane from Die Hard, The Bride from Kill Bill Vol. 2, Blade from Blade II, and more.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Rap Year Book and Basketball (and Other Things) Shea Serrano, a witty & fun reexamination of some of the most iconic— “expensive”—players, moments, and games from the NBA. Everything in basketball is measured. Everything in basketball is counted, and quantified, and computed. And yet, no matter how expansive the list of various pinpoint-specific statistical categories gets, some basketball things remain uncountable or unquantifiable. Some moments are more poetry than calculation, rising to art than numerical value. More feeling than data processing. And EXPENSIVE BASKETBALL. From Kobe’s 81-point game to Sue Bird’s crossover, from the majesty of Ray Allen’s legendary 3-pointer to the beautiful mystery of Allen Iverson, New York Times bestselling author, Shea Serrano, illustrates, EXPENSIVE BASKETBALL is an affirmation of feelings. It’s an affirmation of basketball as virtuosity. It’s an affirmation of how sometimes you watch a person do a thing on a basketball court and it feels the same way it feels when you lie in the grass at night and stare up at the moon for long enough that you start to think about how incredible it is that you really, truly, honestly, actually exist.

This is a collection of nine separate essays, each one dissecting a different role Ryan Gosling has played in a movie.Every movie Ryan Gosling has been in gets mentioned in A REAL HUMAN BEING, but the nine featured roles are: Noah Calhoun from The Notebook, Lars Lindstrom from Lars and the Real Girl, Jacob Palmer from Crazy, Stupid, Love, The Driver from Drive, Luke Glanton from The Place Beyond the Pines, Jared Bennett from The Big Short, Holland March from The Nice Guys, Sebastian Wilder from La La Land, and Beach Ken from Barbie.

This is a story about a group of elves who work in Santa’s Workshop.There are a certain number of them, but the ones mentioned by name are: Giggles, who is a toy builder; Pip-Pip, who is a candy cane striper; Sprinkle, who is a gift wrapper; Stargazer, who is in charge of sleigh maintenance; Mistletoe, who tends to the reindeer; and Binky, a ribbon curler and the leader of the group. You don’t need to know their jobs or any details about them. You just need to know that they exist.And now you do.So here we go.

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