Humor me : an anthology of funny contemporary writing (plus some great old stuff too)

Humor me An anthology of funny contemporary writing (plus some great old stuff too)

Book - 2010

"A literary cavalcade ... featuring more than fifty pieces of the greatest comic writing of our time. The book includes such masters of the form as Roy Blount, Jr., Bruce Jay Friedman, Veronica Geng, Jack Handey, Garrison Keillor, Steve Martin, and Calvin Trillin, as well as work by newer comic stars like Andy Borowitz, Larry Doyle, Simon Rich, George Saunders, and David Sedaris, ... [and] classics by Bret Harte, Elizabeth Bishop, Donald Barthelme, and Mark Twain." -- Dust jacket.

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Subjects
American wit and humor > 20th century.
American wit and humor > 21st century.
Published
New York : Ecco [2010]
Language
English
Other Authors
Ian Frazier (-)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
xii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN
9780061728945
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Now
  • "Fall Fashion Report from a Local Correctional Facility"
  • "This Old Bod"
  • "Salute to John Wayne"
  • "Theatre-Lobby Notices"
  • "I Loved the Garish Days"
  • "Gimme No Static"
  • "Hepatitis F"
  • "Life without Leann"
  • "The Magical Grasp of Antiques"
  • "What the Twister Did"
  • "Lamentations of the Father"
  • "Let's Hear It for a Beautiful Guy"
  • "Plan 10 from Zone R-3"
  • "What He Told Me"
  • "La Cosa Noshtra"
  • "Gum"
  • "What I'd Say to the Martians"
  • "The Fragging"
  • "Around the Horne"
  • "Evidently, It Was Live Then"
  • "Girl"
  • From Glengarry Glen Ross
  • "The Third Millennium: So Far, So Good"
  • "Getting Along with the Russians"
  • "La Bamba Hot Line"
  • "Fair Warning"
  • "Hitler's Secret Dairy"
  • "The Miracle of the Fish Plate"
  • "The Royal Visitor"
  • "There Shall Be No Bottom (A Bad Play for Worse Actors)"
  • "A Naturalist's Notes"
  • "Six Days: Some Rememberings"
  • "I Don't Talk Service No More"
  • "Scarliotti and the Sinkhole"
  • "Play Nice"
  • "Adams"
  • "Save Our Bus Herds!"
  • "A Plague of Tics"
  • "The Wrong Shapiro at the Right Time"
  • "A Prayer"
  • "My Married Life: The Whole Truth Thus Far"
  • "How Important Moments in My Life Would Have Been Different If I Was Shot Twice in the Stomach at Close Range"
  • "Curtain Time"
  • "I Embrace the New Candor"
  • "A Mild 'Complaint'"
  • Part II. Some Great Old Stuff
  • "Muck-a-Muck: A Modern Indian Novel After Cooper" (1867)
  • "1601" (1880)
  • "Anegdotes from the Life of Pushkin" (1930s)
  • "History in the Balance" (1958)
  • "The Bathhouse" (1961)
  • "How to Write Good" (1971)
  • "Thailand" (1970s)
  • "The Ultimate Diary (Further Jottings of a Contemporary Composer)" (1975)
  • "12 o'Clock News" (1979)
  • About the Contributors
  • About 826 Seattle
  • Permissions
Review by Booklist Review

Funny is as funny does, and the writers in Frazier's zany anthology of amusement do humor exceptionally well. From the inimitable Roy Blount, Jr., to the irrepressible Bruce Jay Friedman, the wry Calvin Trillin to the withering David Sedaris, a veritable who's who of contemporary and classic humorists examine all manner of human frailty through a slightly skewed lens. The fact that sometimes the humans are not of this earth or are, oh, say, deceased, bloodthirsty conquerors, matters not at all. Frazier's point is that there is humor to be found everywhere. Indeed, his own Lamentations of the Father, in which the rules of parenthood are laid down in the voice of the Almighty sets the standard for other laugh-inducing entries, such as Steve Martin's droll analysis of our new century in The Third Millennium: So Far, So Good, and Simon Rich's clever adults-versus-children, table-turning scenario in Play Nice. With an accessible balance of short slapstick and cerebral satire, Frazier's collection is good for more than a few laughs.--Haggas, Carol Copyright 2010 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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