01764nam a2200217 i 450000100070000000500170000700800410002402000150006504100080008005000230008824501130011126000430022430000250026750501830029252009460047565000280142165100390144965000210148870000190150970000180152811610020230410130743.0140514b2002    nyua          000 0 eng    a03757612760 aeng14aPN 6165bF465 200200aFierce pajamas :ban anthology of humor writing from the New Yorker /cEdited by David Remnick; Henry Finder  aNew York :bThe Modern Library,c2002.  axxi, 497 p. ;c24 cm0 aSpoofs --  The frenzy of renown --  The war between men and women --  The writing life --  A funny thing happened --  Words of advice --  Recollections and reflections --  Verse.  aWhen Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he described it as a "comic weekly." And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists of the modern era, from Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker to Woody Allen and Steve Martin. This anthology gathers together the funniest work of more than seventy contributors. Parodists take on not only writers like Hemingway and Kerouac, but TV documentaries, Italian cinema, and etiquette books. Other pieces offer perspectives on the heights of fame, the depths of social embarrassment, and the ups and downs of love and sex. A rich selection of humorous verse includes caustic gems by Dorothy Parker, the effortless whimsy of Phyllis McGinley, and Ogden Nash's unforgettable slapstick prosody, as well as forays by luminaries who ought to have known better.--From publisher description.  aAmerican wit and humor. 0aNew Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925) 4aHumor americano.1 aRemnick, David1 aFinder, Henry