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American wit and humor -- 20th century.
American wit and humor -- 21st century.
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Humor me : an anthol...
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American wit and humor -- 20th century.
American wit and humor -- 21st century.
MARC Display
Humor
me
: an
anthology
of
funny
contemporary
writing
(
plus
some
great
old
stuff
too
) / edited by Ian Frazier.
Ecco, c2010.
Call #:
817.54 H925
Subjects
American wit and
humor
-- 20th century.
American wit and
humor
-- 21st century.
ISBN:
9780061728945 (hc)
0061728942 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xii, 321 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Now: Fall fashion report from a local correctional facility / Henry Alford -- This
old
bod / Roger Angell -- Salute to John Wayne / Roy Blount, Jr. -- Theatre-lobby notices / Andy Borowitz -- I loved the garish days / Lynn Caraganis -- Gimme no static / Rich Cohen -- Hepatitis F / Prudence Crowther -- Life without Leann / Larry Doyle -- Magical grasp of antiques / Glenn Eichler -- What the twister did / Bill Franzen -- Lamentations of the father / Ian Frazier -- Let's hear it for a beautiful day / Bruce Jay Friedman -- Plan 10 from Zone R-3 / Polly Frost -- What he told
me
/ Frank Gannon -- Cosa Noshtra / Veronica Geng -- Gum / Scott Gutterman -- What I'd say to the Martians / Jack Handey -- Fragging / Larry Heinemann -- Around the Horne / Garrison Keillor -- Evidently, it was live then / Dan Kennedy -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- from Glengarry Glen Ross / David Mamet -- Third millennium: so far, so good / Steve Martin -- Getting along with the Russians / Patricia Marx -- La Bamba hot line / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Fair warning / Ian Maxtone-Graham -- Hitler's secret diary / Bruce McCall -- Miracle of the fish plate / Patrick F. McManus -- Royal visitor / George Meyer -- There shall be no bottom (a bad play for worse actors) / Mark O'Donnell -- Naturalist's notes / David Owen -- Six days:
some
rememberings / Grace Paley -- I don't talk service no more / Charles Portis -- Scarliotti and the sinkhole / Padgett Powell -- Play nice / Simon Rich -- Adams / George Saunders -- Save our bus herds! / Cathleen Schine -- Plague of tics / David Sedaris -- Wrong Shapiro at the right time / Susan Shapiro -- Prayer / Paul Simms -- My married life: the whole truth thus far / Mark Singer -- How important moments in my life would have been different if I was shot twice in the stomach at close range / Jake Swearingen -- Curtain time / Calvin Trillin -- I embrace the new candor / George W.S. Trow -- Mild "complaint" / John Updike.
Some
great
old
stuff
: Muck-a-muck: a modern Indian novel after Cooper (1867) / Bret Harte -- 1601 (1889) / Mark Twain -- Anegdotes from the life of Pushkin (1930s) / Daniil Kharms -- History in the balance (1958) / Calvin Tomkins -- Bathhouse (1961) / Mikhail Zoshchenko -- How to write good (19710 / Michael O'Donoghue -- Thailand (1970s) / Donald Barthelme -- Ultimate diary (further jottings of a
contemporary
composer) (1975) / Howard Moss -- 12 o'clock news (1979) / Elizabeth Bishop.
Summary:
"A literary cavalcade ... featuring more than fifty pieces of the greatest comic
writing
of our time. The book includes such masters of the form as Roy Blount, Jr., Bruce Jay Friedman, Veronica Geng, Jack Handey, Garrison Keillor, Steve Martin, and Calvin Trillin, as well as work by newer comic stars like Andy Borowitz, Larry Doyle, Simon Rich, George Saunders, and David Sedaris, ... [and] classics by Bret Harte, Elizabeth Bishop, Donald Barthelme, and Mark Twain." -- Dust jacket.
Other authors:
Frazier, Ian.
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1
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