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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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American wit and humor -- 20th century.
American wit and humor -- 21st century.
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Humor me : an anthol...
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Humor me : an anthology of funny contemporary writing (plus some great old stuff too) / edited by Ian Frazier.
New York : Ecco, c2010.
Subjects
American wit and humor -- 20th century.
American wit and humor -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9780061728945 (hbk.) :
0061728942 (hbk.)
Description:
xii, 321 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
Contents:
Now: Fall fashion report from a local correctional facility / Henry Alford -- This old bod / Roger Angell -- Salute to John Wayne / Roy Blount, Jr. -- Theatre-lobby notices / Andy Borowitz -- I loved the garish days / Lynn Caraganis -- Gimme no static / Rich Cohen -- Hepatitis F / Prudence Crowther -- Life without Leann / Larry Doyle -- Magical grasp of antiques / Glenn Eichler -- What the twister did / Bill Franzen -- Lamentations of the father / Ian Frazier -- Let's hear it for a beautiful day / Bruce Jay Friedman -- Plan 10 from Zone R-3 / Polly Frost -- What he told me / Frank Gannon -- Cosa Noshtra / Veronica Geng -- Gum / Scott Gutterman -- What I'd say to the Martians / Jack Handey -- Fragging / Larry Heinemann -- Around the Horne / Garrison Keillor -- Evidently, it was live then / Dan Kennedy -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- from Glengarry Glen Ross / David Mamet -- Third millennium: so far, so good / Steve Martin -- Getting along with the Russians / Patricia Marx -- La Bamba hot line / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Fair warning / Ian Maxtone-Graham -- Hitler's secret diary / Bruce McCall -- Miracle of the fish plate / Patrick F. McManus -- Royal visitor / George Meyer -- There shall be no bottom (a bad play for worse actors) / Mark O'Donnell -- Naturalist's notes / David Owen -- Six days: some rememberings / Grace Paley -- I don't talk service no more / Charles Portis -- Scarliotti and the sinkhole / Padgett Powell -- Play nice / Simon Rich -- Adams / George Saunders -- Save our bus herds! / Cathleen Schine -- Plague of tics / David Sedaris -- Wrong Shapiro at the right time / Susan Shapiro -- Prayer / Paul Simms -- My married life: the whole truth thus far / Mark Singer -- How important moments in my life would have been different if I was shot twice in the stomach at close range / Jake Swearingen -- Curtain time / Calvin Trillin -- I embrace the new candor / George W.S. Trow -- Mild "complaint" / John Updike.
Some great old stuff: Muck-a-muck: a modern Indian novel after Cooper (1867) / Bret Harte -- 1601 (1889) / Mark Twain -- Anegdotes from the life of Pushkin (1930s) / Daniil Kharms -- History in the balance (1958) / Calvin Tomkins -- Bathhouse (1961) / Mikhail Zoshchenko -- How to write good (19710 / Michael O'Donoghue -- Thailand (1970s) / Donald Barthelme -- Ultimate diary (further jottings of a contemporary composer) (1975) / Howard Moss -- 12 o'clock news (1979) / Elizabeth Bishop.
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"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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Aiea Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
817.54 Hu
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Hawaii State Library
Language, Literature & History
817.54 Hu
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Hilo Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
817.54 Humor
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06/19/2024
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Kahuku P/S Library
Adult Nonfiction
817.54 Hu
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Lihue Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
817.54 Hu
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Manoa Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
817.54 Hu
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