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Disquiet Please
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Author : David Remnick
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2008-11-18
Disquiet Please written by David Remnick and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-18 with Humor categories.
The New Yorker is, of course, a bastion of superb essays, influential investigative journalism, and insightful arts criticism. But for eighty years, it’s also been a hoot. In fact, when Harold Ross founded the legendary magazine in 1925, he called it “a comic weekly,” 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 onward–but with a special focus on the latest generation–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 (“Who charges six francs to wash a cummerbund?!”). Woody Allen recalls the “Whore of Mensa,” who excites her customers by reading Proust (or, if you want, two girls will explain Noam Chomsky). Steve Martin’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 (“In Act III, there is full frontal nudity, but not involving the actor you would like to see naked”). David Owen’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 “willage” in Normandy, David Sedaris is drowning a mouse (“This was for the best, whether the mouse realized it or not”). 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.
Disquiet
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Author : Julia Leigh
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2013-07-04
Disquiet written by Julia Leigh and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-04 with Fiction categories.
Fleeing a violent marriage, Olivia returns to her childhood home with her two young children and a broken arm. The house is imposing, surrounded by high walls and yew trees clipped into fantastical shapes, and her mother's rules create an atmosphere of brittle control. By coincidence, another couple are expected at the house at the same time: Olivia's brother Marcus and his wife Sophie are coming back from the hospital with their newborn. But Marcus and Sophie also bring along with them a tragic secret, a secret that will push the whole family towards breaking point...'Julia Leigh is one of the greatest living writers.' Simon Schama, Guardian Books of the Year'I loved it . . . A modern gothic classic.' Sarah Hall
Spiritual Communications
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Author : Henry Kiddle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1879
Spiritual Communications written by Henry Kiddle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with Bible and spiritualism categories.
The New Yorker
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Author : Harold Wallace Ross
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-12
The New Yorker written by Harold Wallace Ross and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12 with Electronic journals categories.
First Report Of The Committee Of Privileges
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Author : Singapore. Parliament. Committee of Privileges
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
First Report Of The Committee Of Privileges written by Singapore. Parliament. Committee of Privileges and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Court administration categories.
Fierce Pajamas
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Author : David Remnick
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2001-12-11
Fierce Pajamas written by David Remnick and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-12-11 with Humor categories.
When 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 founder’s description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists of the modern era—among them Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, George S. Kaufman, James Thurber, S. J. Perelman, Peter De Vries, Mike Nichols, Marshall Brickman, Woody Allen, Donald Barthelme, Calvin Trillin, George W. S. Trow, Veronica Geng, Garrison Keillor, Ian Frazier, Roy Blount, Jr., Bruce McCall, Steve Martin, Christopher Buckley, and Paul Rudnick. This anthology gathers together, for the first time, the funniest work of more than seventy New Yorker contributors. Parodists take on not only writers like Hemingway and Kerouac, but TV documentaries, Italian cinema, and etiquette books. (Enough have been published, Robert Benchley maintains, “that there should be no danger of toppling over forward into the wrong soup, or getting into arguments as to which elbow belongs on which arm.”) Other pieces offer perspectives on the heights of fame, the depths of social embarrassment, and the ups and downs of love and sex. Such well-loved sketches as Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” take their place alongside light-hearted essays on food, tennis, and taxis, and flights of fancy that follow an apparently simple premise to the point of no return, and sometimes well beyond. Here you will find large insights (Woody Allen: “Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage”) and hard-earned wisdom (Ian Frazier on dating your mom: “Here is a grown, experienced, loving woman—one you do not have to go to a party or a singles bar to meet, one you do not have to go to great lengths to know”). And, not least, a great deal of helpful advice, including Steve Martin’s on memory and middle age: “Bored? Here’s a way the over-fifty set can easily kill a good half hour: 1. Place your car keys in your right hand. 2. With your left hand, call a friend and confirm a lunch or dinner date. 3. Hang up the phone. 4. Now look for your car keys.” 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, like Robert Graves, Elizabeth Bishop, and W. H. Auden. A wonderful gift for others, or a delightful treat for oneself, Fierce Pajamas is a treasury of laughter from a publication described by Auden as “the best comic magazine in existence.”
Disquiet
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Author : Zülfü Livaneli
language : en
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Release Date : 2021-06-29
Disquiet written by Zülfü Livaneli and has been published by Other Press, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-29 with Fiction categories.
World Literature Today: Notable Translation of the Year PopMatters: Best Book of the Year From the internationally bestselling author of Serenade for Nadia, a powerful story of love and faith amidst the atrocities committed by ISIS against the Yazidi people. Disquiet transports the reader to the contemporary Middle East through the stories of Meleknaz, a Yazidi Syrian refugee, and Hussein, a young man from the Turkish city of Mardin near the Syrian border. Passionate about helping others, Hussein begins visiting a refugee camp to tend to the thousands of poor and sick streaming into Turkey, fleeing ISIS. There, he falls in love with Meleknaz—whom his disapproving family will call “the devil” who seduced him—and their relationship sets further tragedy in motion. A nuanced meditation on the nature of being human and an empathetic, probing look at the past and present of these Mesopotamian lands, Disquiet gives voice to the peoples, faiths, histories, and stories that have swept through this region over centuries.
Library Journal
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Library Journal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Libraries categories.
Will You Please Be Quiet Please
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Author : Raymond Carver
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2016-01-28
Will You Please Be Quiet Please written by Raymond Carver and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-28 with Fiction categories.
With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his hallmark, Carver showed how humour and tragedy dwell in the hearts of ordinary people, and won a readership that grew with every subsequent brilliant collection of stories, poems and essays that appeared in the last eleven years of his life.
Frank Leslie S Sunday Magazine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
Frank Leslie S Sunday Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with categories.
Includes music.