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Death in the rumble seat / Wolcott Gibbs -- Dusk in fierce pajamas / E.B. White -- Across the street and into the grill / E.B. White -- On the sidewalk / John Updike -- Save my seat / Mike Nichols -- Hassidic tales, with a guide to their interpretation by the noted scholar / Woody Allen -- The ultimate diary / Howard Moss -- The analytic napkin / Marshall Brickman -- Who's who in the cast / Marshall Brickman -- Health department lists restaurant violations / Daniel Menaker -- The delts of Venus / Charles McGrath -- Notes from the edge conference / Roy Blount, Jr. -- LGA-ORD / Ian Frazier -- Love trouble is my business / Veronica Geng -- In the new Canada, living is a way of life / Bruce McCall -- Corrections / Calvin Trillin -- Stardate 12:00 12:00 12:00 / Christopher Buckley -- Glengarry glen plaid / Frank Cammuso and Hart Seely -- Gum / Scott Gutterman -- What we talk about when we talk about doughnuts / Michael Gerber and Jonathan Schwarz -- Teen times / Paul Rudnik -- Press agents I have known / Groucho Marx -- The greatest man in the world / James Thurber -- The interview / James Thurber -- Let's hear it for a beautiful guy / Bruce Jay Friedman -- The king of jazz / Donald Barthelme -- My Mao ; Our side of the story / Veronica Geng -- Do you know me? / George W.S. Trow -- Gandhi at the bat / Chet Williamson -- Igor Stravinsky: the selected phone calls / Ian Frazier -- We are still married ; Meeting famous people / Garrison Keillor -- Yo, Poe / Frank Gannon -- My life: a series of privately funded performance-art pieces / Susan Orlean -- The A-list E-list / David Brooks -- Mr. Preble gets rid of his wife ; A couple of hamburgers / James Thurber -- Forever panting / Peter De Vries -- The Kugelmass episode / Woody Allen -- Partners / Veronica Geng -- My married life: the whole truth thus far / Mark Singer -- Life without Leann / Larry Doyle -- Zeus the Lutheran / Garrison Keillor -- The very comical lament of Pyramus and Thisbe / Susan Sontag -- Off-ramp / Polly Frost -- Blown away / Lisa Walker -- Here's a really great idea / David Owen -- A short autobiography / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The cliche expert takes the stand ; The cliche expert tells all / Frank Sullivan -- How to achieve success as a writer / Ruth Suckow -- The rather difficult case of Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N / Leonard Q. Ross -- The notebooks of James Thurber / James Thurber -- Are we losing the novel race? / Michael J. Arlen -- Roland Magruder, freelance writer / Calvin Trillin -- Contemporary writers VI: and interview with Grip Sands / Philip Hamburger -- In the dough / Roger Angell -- Selections from the Allen notebooks / Woody Allen -- I cover Carter / George W.S. Trow -- Notes on my conversations / Polly Frost -- Writing is easy! ; Drivel / Steve Martin -- Emily Dickinson, jerk of Amherst / Andy Borowitz -- The people who had the house before / Robert Benchley -- The catastrophe / William Shawn -- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- I am not now, nor have I ever been, a matrix of lean meat ; Eine Kleine Mothmusik ; Monomania, you and me is quits / S.J. Perelman -- Pnin / Vladimir Nabokov -- Annoy Kaufman, Inc. / George S. Kaufman -- The last repository / H.F. Ellis -- Yma dream / Thomas Meehan -- Ainmosni / Roger Angell -- The high ground, or look, Ma, I'm explicating / Peter De Vries -- Apartment 6-A: after the fall / Ian Frazier -- Spill / George W.S. Trow -- Hearing from Wayne / Bill Franzen -- Stunned / Jack Handey -- He didn't go to Canada / Garrison Keillor -- Post-euphoria / Veronica Geng -- Keith Richards' desert-island disks / Noah Baumbach -- How to become obscene / Upton Sinclair -- Filling that hiatus ; It's fun to be fooled ... it's more fun to know ; Why we laugh--or do we? / Robert Benchley -- Insert flap "A" and throw away / S.J. Perelman -- How to eat an ice- cream cone / L. Rust Hills -- Teaching poetry writing to singles / Veronica Geng -- Dating your mom ; A reading list for young writers / Ian Frazier -- How I write my songs / Donald Barthelme -- Save our bus herds! / Cathleen Schine -- Three great meals / William White -- Read this first / Bruce McCall -- Take it from me / Nancy Franklin -- Changes in the memory after fifty ; The hundred greatest books that I've read / Steve Martin -- Reintroducing me to my habitat ; Thank you for stopping / Jack Handey -- Homework: a parent's guide / Christopher Buckley -- What happened to my money? / David Owen -- On taxi drivers / Alexander Woollcott -- Father isn't much help / Clarence Day -- The night the ghost got in / James Thurber -- Ring out, wild bells / Wolcott Gibbs -- The ballet visits the splendide's magician / Ludwig Bemelmans -- Cloudland revisited: why, doctor, what big green eyes you have! / S.J. Perelman -- Thoughts on radio-televese / John Lardner -- The musical husbands / Adam Gopnik -- Listening to Bourbon / Louis Menand -- Look back in hunger / Anthony Lane -- Tennis personalities / Martin Amis -- Car talk / John Updike -- Critic / E.B. White -- Song to be disregarded ; To a perfumed lady at the concert ; Song of the queen bee / E.B. White -- Rhyme of an involuntary violet ; Fulfilment ; Bohemia / Dorothy Parker -- Mother's home again! / Don Marquis -- Melancholy reflections after a lost argument ; The seven ages of a newspaper subscriber ; Incident in the afternoon / Phyllis McGinley -- Procrastination is all of the time ; To my valentine ; So that's who I remind me of ; Compliments of a friend ; The invitation says from five to seven / Ogden Nash -- Theme and variation / Peter De Vries -- People / W.H. Auden -- Six poets in search of a lawyer / Donald Hall -- The naked and the nude / Robert Graves -- 12 o'clock news / Elizabeth Bishop -- Christmas in Qatar / Calvin Trillin -- Duet, with muffled brake drums ; Ocular hypertension / John Updike. |
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