Fierce Pajamas

2002-10-15 Humor

Author : David Remnick
Release : 2002-10-15
Genre : Humor
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Book Rating : 276/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Fierce Pajamas by : David Remnick

Download or read book Fierce Pajamas written by David Remnick. This book was released on 2002-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he called it a “comic weekly.” And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the founder’s description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists in the modern era—among them Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, James Thurber, S. J. Perelman, Mike Nichols, Woody Allen, Calvin Trillin, Garrison Keillor, Ian Frazier, Roy Blount, Jr., Steve Martin, and Christopher Buckley. Fierce Pajamas is a treasury of laughter from the magazine W. H. Auden called the “best comic magazine in existence.”

What's So Funny?

1998 History

Author : Nancy A. Walker
Release : 1998
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 888/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book What's So Funny? written by Nancy A. Walker. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical studies attempting to define and dissect American humor have been published steadily for nearly one hundred years. However, until now, key documents from that history have never been brought together in a single volume for students and scholars. What's So Funny? Humor in American Culture, a collection of 15 essays, examines the meaning of humor and attempts to pinpoint its impact on American culture and society, while providing a historical overview of its progres-sion. Essays from Nancy Walker and Zita Dresner, Joseph Boskin and Joseph Dorinson, William Keough, Roy Blount, Jr., and others trace the development of American humor from the colonial period to the present, focusing on its relationship with ethnicity, gender, violence, and geography. An excellent reader for courses in American studies and American social and cultural history, What's So Funny? explores the traits of the American experience that have given rise to its humor.

E.B. White

1986 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Scott Elledge
Release : 1986
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 056/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book E.B. White written by Scott Elledge. This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a richly detailed and vivid biography of the man who wrote 'Charlotte's Web', 'The Trumpet of the Swan', and 'Stuart Little'; the writer whose style and humor were so important in distinguishing 'The New Yorker's' first thirty years. Included are some photographs and drawings, as well as manuscript facsimiles.

Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

1995-11-01 Fiction

Author : Tom Robbins
Release : 1995-11-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 876/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas written by Tom Robbins. This book was released on 1995-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you—an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker—are convinced that you’re facing the Weekend from Hell. Before the market reopens on Monday, you’re going to have to scramble and scheme to cover your butt, but there’s no way you can anticipate the baffling disappearance of a 300-pound psychic, the fall from grace of a born-again monkey, or the intrusion in your life of a tattooed stranger intent on blowing your mind and most of your fuses. Over these fateful three days, you will be forced to confront everything from mysterious African rituals to legendary amphibians, from tarot-card bombshells to street violence, from your own sexuality to outer space. This is, after all, a Tom Robbins novel—and the author has never been in finer form.

Disquiet, Please!

2010-03-09 Humor

Author : David Remnick
Release : 2010-03-09
Genre : Humor
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Book Rating : 974/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Disquiet, Please! written by David Remnick. This book was released on 2010-03-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Yorker is, of course, a bastion of superb essays, influential investigative journalism, and insightful arts criticism. But for eighty years it’s also been a hoot. Now an uproarious sampling of its funny writings can be found in this collection, by turns satirical and witty, misanthropic and menacing. From the 1920s onward—but with a special focus on the latest generation—here are the humorists who have set the pace and stirred the pot, pulled the leg and pinched the behind of America. The comic lineup includes Christopher Buckley, Ian Frazier, Veronica Geng, Garrison Keillor, Steve Martin, Susan Orlean, Simon Rich, David Sedaris, Calvin Trillin, and many others. If laughter is the best medicine, Disquiet, Please! is truly a wonder drug.

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