Description |
viii, 342 pages ; 21 cm |
Note |
"A Random House trade paperback original" -- T.p. verso. |
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Consists of previously published works, including Getting even, Without feathers, Side effects and some essays originally published in The New Yorker. |
Contents |
The Metterling lists -- A look at organized crime -- The Schmeed memoirs -- My philosophy -- Yes, but can the steam engine do this? -- Spring bulletin -- Hassidic tales, with a guide to their interpretation by the noted scholar -- The Gossage-Vardebedian papers -- Notes from the overfed -- A twenties memory -- Count Dracula -- A little louder, please -- Conversations with Helmholtz -- Viva Vargas! -- The discovery and use of the fake ink blot -- Mr. Big -- Selections from the Allen notebooks -- Examining psychic phenomena -- A guide to some of the lesser ballets -- The scrolls -- The whore of Mensa -- The early essays -- A brief, yet helpful, guide to civil disobedience -- The Irish genius -- Fabulous tales and mythical beasts -- But soft...real soft -- If the Impressionists had been dentists -- No kaddish for Weinstein -- Fine times : an oral memoir -- Slang origins -- Remembering Needleman -- The condemned -- By destiny denied -- The UFO menace -- My apology -- The Kugelmass episode -- My speech to the graduates -- The diet -- The lunatic's tale -- Reminiscences : places and people -- Nefarious times we live in -- A giant step for mankind -- The shallowest man -- Fabrizio's : criticism and response -- Retribution. |
Subject |
American wit and humor.
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ISBN |
0812978110 paperback $15.95 |
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9780812978117 paperback |
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