The 50 funniest American writers* : an anthology of humor from Mark Twain to the Onion
(2011)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
817.008/FIFTY
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, N.Y. : Library of America, [2011]
©2011
©2011
DESCRIPTION
xv, 461 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781598531077, 1598531077
LANGUAGE
English
CONTENTS
A presidential candidate /
Mark Twain -- Lecture tickets that were bought but never used /
George Ade -- Ransom of Red Chief /
O. Henry -- from Babbitt /
Sinclair Lewis -- from Gentlemen prefer blondes /
Anita Loos -- On conversation /
Ring Lardner -- Imperial purple /
H.L. Mencken -- More alarms at night /
James Thurber -- Waltz /
Dorothy Parker -- Farewell, my lovely appetizer /
S.J. Perelman -- Simple prays a prayer /
Langston Hughes -- Night the old nostalgia burned down /
Frank Sullivan -- Across the street and into the grill /
E.B. White -- House of mirth /
Peter De Vries -- from The magic Christian /
Terry Southern -- from How to talk dirty and influence people /
Lenny Bruce -- Secret vice /
Tom Wolfe -- Counterfeit secret circle member gets the message, or The asp strikes again /
Jean Shepherd -- Kentucky Derby is decadent and depraved /
Hunter S. Thompson -- A look at organized crime /
Woody Allen -- Tax man /
Bruce Jay Friedman -- Letters to Einstein /
Philip Roth -- A few words about breasts /
Nora Ephron -- Our white heritage /
Henry Beard, Michael O'Donoghue, George W.S. Trow -- Better read than dead: a revised opinion /
Fran Lebowitz -- Your action line /
Charles Portis -- In the morning post /
Donald Barthleme -- Curb Carter policy discord effort threat /
Veronica Geng -- Vacation '58 /
John Hughes -- Laws of cartoon motion /
Mark O'Donnell -- Tip-Top Club /
Garrision Keillor -- Rolled in rare Bohemian onyx, then vulcanized by hand /
Bruce McCall -- Tough as bob war and other stuff /
Molly Ivins -- Corrections /
Calvin Trillin -- Tips for women: how to have a relationships with a guy /
Dave Barry -- Clinton deploys vowels to Bosnia /
The Onion -- Shiftless little loafers /
Susan Orlean -- Gothic baseball /
Roy Blount Jr. -- If I were in charge of the networks /
George Carlin -- Laws concerning food and drink ;
Household principles ;
Lamentations of the father /
Ian Frazier -- Writer's life /
David Rakoff -- from I ain't scared of you /
Bernie Mac -- Buddy, can you spare a tie? /
David Sedaris -- It's so hard /
Wanda Sykes -- What I'd say to the Martians /
Jack Handey -- Your three wishes: F.A.Q. /
David Owen -- Ask the optimist! /
George Saunders -- Awake /
Jenny Allen -- Pony problem /
Sloane Crosley -- If not an apology, at least a "My bad" /
Larry Wilmore