Disquiet, Please! More Humor Writing from The New Yorker

✍ Scribed by Remnick, David; Finder, Henry (Editor)

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 537 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781588368034

✦ Synopsis

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. In fact, when Harold Ross founded the legendary magazine in 1925, he called it "a comic weekly," and while it has grown into much more**,** it has also remained true to its original mission. Now an uproarious sampling of its funny writings can be found in a hilarious new collection, one as satirical and witty, misanthropic and menacing, as the first, Fierce Pajamas. From the 1920s onward--but with a special focus on the latest generation--here are the humorists who set the pace and stirred the pot, pulled the leg and pinched the behind of America.

S. J. Perelman unearths the furious letters of a foreign correspondent in India to the laundry he insists on using in Paris ("Who charges six francs to wash a cummerbund?!"). Woody Allen recalls the "Whore of Mensa," who excites her...