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FIERCE PAJAMAS AN ANTHOLOGY OF HUMOR WRITING FROM THE NEW YORKER EDITED BY DAVID REMNICK AND HENRY FINDER RANDOM HOUSE | NEW YORK CONTENTS Title Page Dedication Introduction SPOOFS Death in the Rumble Seat / Wolcott Gibbs Dusk in Fierce Pajamas / E. B. White Across the Street and into the Grill / E. B. White On the Sidewalk / John Updike Save My Seat / Mike Nichols Hassidic Tales, With a Guide to Their Interpretation by the Noted Scholar / Woody Allen The Ultimate Diary / Howard Moss The Analytic Napkin / Marshall Brickman Who’s Who in the Cast / Marshall Brickman Health Department Lists Restaurant Violations / Daniel Menaker The Delts of Venus / Charles McGrath Notes from the Edge Conference / Roy Blount, Jr. LGA-ORD / Ian Frazier Love Trouble Is My Business / Veronica Geng In the New Canada, Living Is a Way of Life / Bruce McCall Corrections / Calvin Trillin Stardate 12:00 12:00 12:00 / Christopher Buckley Glengarry Glen Plaid / Frank Cammuso and Hart Seely Gum / Scott Gutterman What We Talk About When We Talk About Doughnuts / Michael Gerber and Jonathan Schwarz Teen Times / Paul Rudnick THE FRENZY OF RENOWN Press Agents I Have Known / Groucho Marx The Greatest Man in the World / James Thurber The Interview / James Thurber Let’s Hear It for a Beautiful Guy / Bruce Jay Friedman The King of Jazz / Donald Barthelme My Mao / Veronica Geng Our Side of the Story / Veronica Geng Do You Know Me? / George W. S. Trow Gandhi at the Bat / Chet Williamson Igor Stravinsky: The Selected Phone Calls / Ian Frazier We Are Still Married / Garrison Keillor Meeting Famous People / Garrison Keillor Yo, Poe / Frank Gannon My Life: A Series of Privately Funded Performance-Art Pieces / Susan Orlean The A-List E-List / David Brooks THE WAR BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN Mr. Preble Gets Rid of His Wife / James Thurber A Couple of Hamburgers / James Thurber Forever Panting / Peter De Vries The Kugelmass Episode / Woody Allen Partners / Veronica Geng My Married Life: The Whole Truth Thus Far / Mark Singer Life Without Leann / Larry Doyle Zeus the Lutheran / Garrison Keillor The Very Comical Lament of Pyramus and Thisbe / Susan Sontag Off-Ramp / Polly Frost Blown Away / Lisa Walker Here’s a Really Great Idea / David Owen THE WRITING LIFE A Short Autobiography / F. Scott Fitzgerald The Cliché Expert Takes the Stand / Frank Sullivan The Cliché Expert Tells All / Frank Sullivan How to Achieve Success as a Writer / Ruth Suckow The Rather Difficult Case of Mr. K A P L A N / Leonard Q. Ross The Notebooks of James Thurber / James Thurber Are We Losing the Novel Race? / Michael J. Arlen Roland Magruder, Freelance Writer / Calvin Trillin Contemporary Writers VI: An Interview with Grip Sands / Philip Hamburger In the Dough / Roger Angell Selections from the Allen Notebooks / Woody Allen I Cover Carter / George W. S. Trow Notes on My Conversations / Polly Frost Writing Is Easy! / Steve Martin Drivel / Steve Martin Emily Dickinson, Jerk of Amherst / Andy Borowitz A FUNNY THING HAPPENED The People Who Had the House Before / Robert Benchley The Catastrophe / William Shawn The Secret Life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber I Am Not Now, Nor Have I Ever Been, a Matrix of Lean Meat / S. J. Perelman Eine Kleine Mothmusik / S. J. Perelman Monomania, You and Me Is Quits / S. J. Perelman Pnin / Vladimir Nabokov Annoy Kaufman, Inc. / George S. Kaufman The Last Repository / H. F. Ellis YMA Dream / Thomas Meehan Ainmosni / Roger Angell The High Ground, or Look, Ma, I’m Explicating / Peter De Vries Apartment 6-A: After the Fall / Ian Frazier Spill / George W. S. Trow Hearing from Wayne / Bill Franzen Stunned / Jack Handey He Didn’t Go to Canada / Garrison Keillor Post-Euphoria / Veronica Geng Keith Richards’ Desert-Island Disks / Noah Baumbach WORDS OF ADVICE How to Be Obscene / Upton Sinclair Filling That Hiatus / Robert Benchley It’s Fun to Be Fooled . . . It’s More Fun to Know / Robert Benchley Why We Laugh—or Do We? / Robert Benchley Insert Flap “A” and Throw Away / S. J. Perelman How to Eat an Ice-Cream Cone / L. Rust Hills Teaching Poetry Writing to Singles / Veronica Geng Dating Your Mom / Ian Frazier A Reading List for Young Writers / Ian Frazier How I Write My Songs / Donald Barthelme Save Our Bus Herds! / Cathleen Schine Three Great Meals / William White Read This First / Bruce McCall Take It from Me / Nancy Franklin Changes in the Memory After Fifty / Steve Martin The Hundred Greatest Books That I’ve Read / Steve Martin Reintroducing Me to My Habitat / Jack Handey Thank You for Stopping / Jack Handey Homework: A Parent’s Guide / Christopher Buckley What Happened to My Money? / David Owen RECOLLECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS On Taxi Drivers / Alexander Woollcott Father Isn’t Much Help / Clarence Day The Night the Ghost Got In / James Thurber Ring Out, Wild Bells / Wolcott Gibbs The Ballet Visits the Splendide’s Magician / Ludwig Bemelmans Cloudland Revisited: Why, Doctor, What Big Green Eyes You Have! / S. J. Perelman Thoughts on Radio-Televese / John Lardner The Musical Husbands / Adam Gopnik Listening to Bourbon / Louis Menand Look Back in Hunger / Anthony Lane Tennis Personalities / Martin Amis Car Talk / John Updike VERSE Critic / E. B. White Song to Be Disregarded / E. B. White To a Perfumed Lady at the Concert / E. B. White Song of the Queen Bee / E. B. White Rhyme of an Involuntary Violet / Dorothy Parker Fulfilment / Dorothy Parker Bohemia / Dorothy Parker Mother’s Home Again! / Don Marquis Melancholy Reflections After a Lost Argument / Phyllis McGinley The Seven Ages of a Newspaper Subscriber / Phyllis McGinley Incident in the Afternoon / Phyllis McGinley Procrastination Is All of the Time / Ogden Nash To My Valentine / Ogden Nash So That’s Who I Remind Me Of / Ogden Nash Compliments of a Friend / Ogden Nash The Invitation Says from Five to Seven / Ogden Nash Theme and Variation / Peter De Vries People / W. H. Auden Six Poets in Search of a Lawyer / Donald Hall The Naked and the Nude / Robert Graves 12 O’Clock News / Elizabeth Bishop Christmas in Qatar / Calvin Trillin Duet, with Muffled Brake Drums / John Updike Ocular Hypertension / John Updike Endnotes Notes on Contributors About the Editors Copyright
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