Contributor
Borowitz, Andy.
Imprint:New York, N.Y. : Library of America, c2011.
Descriptionxv, 461 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Note:A presidential candidate / Mark Twain -- The lecture tickets that were bought but never used / George Ade -- The 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 -- The waltz / Dorothy Parker -- Farewell, my lovely appetizer / S. J. Perelman -- Simple prays a prayer / Langston Hughes -- The night the old nostalgia burned down / Frank Sullivan -- Across the street and into the grill / E. B. White -- The house of mirth / Peter De Vries -- from The magic Christian / Terry Southern -- from How to talk dirty and influence people / Lenny Bruce -- The secret vice / Tom Wolfe -- The counterfeit secret circle member gets the message, or The asp strikes again / Jean Shepherd -- The Kentucky Derby is decadent and depraved / Hunter S. Thompson -- A look at organized crime / Woody Allen -- 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 that dean: a revised opinion / Fran Lebowitz -- Your action line / Charles Portis -- In the morning post / Donald Barthelme -- Curb carter policy discord effort threat / Veronica Geng -- Vacation '58 / John Hughes -- The laws of cartoon motion / Mark O'Donnell -- The tip-top club / Garrison Keller -- 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 relationship with a guy / Dave Barry -- Clinton deploys vowels in 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 -- The writer's laws / 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 -- The pony problem / Sloane Crosley -- If not an apology, at least a "my bad" / Larry Wilmore.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
