Disquiet, Please!: More Humor Writing from The New Yorker

Disquiet, Please!: More Humor Writing from The New Yorker

The New Yorker is, of course, a bastion of superb essays, influential investigative journalism, and insightful arts criticism. But for eighty years, itâ€™s also been a hoot. In fact, when Harold Ross founded the legendary magazine in 1925, he called it â€œa comic weekly,â€ 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 onwardâ€“but with a special focus on the latest generationâ€“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 (â€œWho charges six francs to wash a cummerbund?!â€). Woody Allen recalls the â€œWhore of Mensa,â€ who excites her customers by reading Proust (or, if you want, two girls will explain Noam Chomsky). Steve Martinâ€™s pill bottle warns us of side effects ranging from hair that smells of burning tires to teeth receiving radio broadcasts. Andy Borowitz provides his version of theater-lobby notices (â€œIn Act III, there is full frontal nudity, but not involving the actor you would like to see nakedâ€). David Owenâ€™s rules for dating his ex-wife start out magnanimous and swiftly disintegrate into sarcasm, self-loathing, and rage, and Noah Baumbach unfolds a history of his last relationship in the form of Zagat reviews.

Meanwhile, off in a remote â€œwillageâ€ in Normandy, David Sedaris is drowning a mouse (â€œThis was for the best, whether the mouse realized it or notâ€).

Plus asides, fancies, rebukes, and musings from Patty Marx, Calvin Trillin, Bruce McCall, Garrison Keillor, Veronica Geng, Ian Frazier, Roy Blount, Jr., and many others.

If laughter is the best medicine, Disquiet, Please is truly a wonder drug.
Country USA
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2008-11-18
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781400068012

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2008-11-18
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781400068012

Disquiet, Please!: More Humor Writing from The New Yorker

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