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- ISBN
- 9780375504754
- Book Title
- Fierce Pajamas : an Anthology of Humor Writing from the New Yorker
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.5 in
- Genre
- Humor
- Topic
- General
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Item Weight
- 29 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 528 Pages
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When Harold Ross foundedThe New Yorkerin 1925, he described it as 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 of the modern era-among them Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, George S. Kaufman, James Thurber, S. J. Perelman, Peter De Vries, Mike Nichols, Marshall Brickman, Woody Allen, Donald Barthelme, Calvin Trillin, George W. S. Trow, Veronica Geng, Garrison Keillor, Ian Frazier, Roy Blount, Jr., Bruce McCall, Steve Martin, Christopher Buckley, and Paul Rudnick. This anthology gathers together, for the first time, the funniest work of more than seventyNew Yorkercontributors. Parodists take on not only writers like Hemingway and Kerouac, but TV documentaries, Italian cinema, and etiquette books. (Enough have been published, Robert Benchley maintains, "that there should be no danger of toppling over forward into the wrong soup, or getting into arguments as to which elbow belongs on which arm.") Other pieces offer perspectives on the heights of fame, the depths of social embarrassment, and the ups and downs of love and sex. Such well-loved sketches as Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" take their place alongside light-hearted essays on food, tennis, and taxis, and flights of fancy that follow an apparently simple premise to the point of no return, and sometimes well beyond. Here you will find large insights (Woody Allen: "Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage") and hard-earned wisdom (Ian Frazier on dating your mom: "Here is a grown, experienced, loving woman-one you do not have to go to a party or a singles bar to meet, one you do not have to go to great lengths to know"). And, not least, a great deal of helpful advice, including Steve Martin's on memory and middle age: "Bored? Here's a way the over-fifty set can easily kill a good half hour: 1. Place your car keys in your right hand. 2. With your left hand, call a friend and confirm a lunch or dinner date. 3. Hang up the phone. 4. Now look for your car keys." A rich selection of humorous verse includes caustic gems by Dorothy Parker, the effortless whimsy of Phyllis McGinley, and Ogden Nash's unforgettable slapstick prosody, as well as forays by luminaries who ought to have known better, like Robert Graves, Elizabeth Bishop, and W. H. Auden. A wonderful gift for others, or a delightful treat for oneself,Fierce Pajamasis a treasury of laughter from a publication described by Auden as "the best comic magazine in existence."
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Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375504753
ISBN-13
9780375504754
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1944577
Product Key Features
Book Title
Fierce Pajamas : an Anthology of Humor Writing from the New Yorker
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Humor
Number of Pages
528 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Item Weight
29 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn6165.F54 2001
Reviews
"A complete delight from beginning to end." -The New York Times "Classic humor writing from a fantasy slumber party of writers." -Vanity Fair "Quite simply among the greatest stuff like this ever written . . . There is comic brilliance in these pages. . . . [Fierce Pajamas] is more than worth your time, your money and the potential damage to your funny bone." -The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "The New Yorker's fine anthology of humor writing can inspire us to collectively bemoan the scarcity of a certain kind of printed comedy: the subtle and sophisticated type." -Newsday From the Trade Paperback edition., "A complete delight from beginning to end." -The New York Times "Classic humor writing from a fantasy slumber party of writers." -Vanity Fair "Quite simply among the greatest stuff like this ever written . . . There is comic brilliance in these pages. . . . [Fierce Pajamas] is more than worth your time, your money and the potential damage to your funny bone." -The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "The New Yorker's fine anthology of humor writing can inspire us to collectively bemoan the scarcity of a certain kind of printed comedy: the subtle and sophisticated type." -Newsday
Copyright Date
2001
Target Audience
Trade
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2001-031775
Dewey Decimal
817/.508
Dewey Edition
21
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