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  • Once upon a Farm

    by Ellis Worth ...
    In this amusing collection of tales, Ellis Worth reminisces about not only his childhood on a Minnesota farm but also many other episodes in his life. These are not sentimental recollections; nor is this an anthology of first-person memoirs. The reminiscences are embedded within enjoyable stories about fictitious characters in equally fictitious settings. But, in accordance with Mark Twain's ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

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    Edited by Andy Borowitz ...
    **New York Times BestsellerThe creator of The New Yorker’s long running satirical column, and “one of the funniest people in America,” pays tribute to comedic geniuses both past and present, including Mark Twain, George Saunders, Nora Ephron, and more (CBS Sunday Morning).**Library of America’s collection of hilarious stories, essays, and articles is an exclusive Who’s Who of the very best ... Read more

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  • Disquiet, Please!

    More Humor Writing from The New Yorker

    Edited by David Remnick, Henry Finder ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Haywire

    A Memoir

    by Brooke Hayward ...
    ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S 100 GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIME • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A celebrated Hollywood memoir: Brooke Hayward was born to a famous actress and a successful Hollywood agent—beautiful, wealthy, and living at the very center of the most privileged life America had to offer. Yet at twenty-three her family was ripped apart.From the moment of its original publication in 1977, ... Read more

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  • The 40s: The Story of a Decade

    by The New Yorker Magazine, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop ...
    Series series New Yorker: The Story of a Decade
    This captivating anthology gathers historic New Yorker pieces from a decade of trauma and upheaval—as well as the years when The New Yorker came of age, with pieces by Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Joseph Mitchell, Vladimir Nabokov, and George Orwell, alongside original reflections on the 1940s by some of today’s finest writers.In this enthralling book, contributions from the great writers ... Read more

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  • Fierce Pajamas

    An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker

    Edited by David Remnick, Henry Finder ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Bring on the Empty Horses (Hodder Great Reads

    by David Niven ...
    Here is Niven at his best. He and Errol Flynn were filming The Charge of the Light Brigade for a director, Michael Curtiz, 'whose Hungarian-orientated English was a joy to us all'. High on the rostrum he decided the moment had come to order the arrival on the scene of a hundred riderless chargers. "Okay," he yelled into a megaphone, "Bring on the empty horses!" 'BRING ON THE EMPTY HORSES is the ... Read more

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  • Groucho And Me

    by Groucho Marx ...
    "An important contribution to the history of show business and to the saga of American comedy and comedians, comics and comicality." —James ThurberWith impeccable timing, outrageous humor, irreverent wit, and a superb sense of the ridiculous, Groucho and Me tells the saga of the Marx Brothers—Chico, Harpo, Zeppo, Gummo, and Groucho—the poverty of their childhood in New York's Upper East Side; the ... Read more

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  • The 50s: The Story of a Decade

    by The New Yorker Magazine, Elizabeth Bishop, Truman Capote ...
    Series series New Yorker: The Story of a Decade
    This engrossing anthology assembles classic New Yorker pieces from a complex era enshrined in the popular imagination as the decade of poodle skirts and Cold War paranoia—featuring contributions from Philip Roth, John Updike, Nadine Gordimer, and Adrienne Rich, along with fresh analysis of the 1950s by some of today’s finest writers.The New Yorker was there in real time, chronicling the tensions ... Read more

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  • Moving Pictures

    Memories of a Hollywood Prince

    by Budd Schulberg ...
    The Oscar-winning screenwriter of On the Waterfront recounts his life, his career, and "how Hollywood became the dream factory it still is today" ( Kirkus Reviews).When Seymour Wilson "Budd" Schulberg moved from New York to Los Angeles as a child, Hollywood's filmmaking industry was just getting started. To some, the region was still more famous for its citrus farms than its movie studios. In this ... Read more

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  • A Writer Writes

    A Memoir

    by Stephen Birmingham ...
    A memoir by the New York Times–bestselling author and longtime chronicler of America's wealthy elite.Born in Connecticut in 1929 and educated at Williams College, Stephen Birmingham went on to create a literary niche with his numerous nonfiction works about New York's—and the nation's—upper class, particularly focusing on Jewish, African American, and Irish communities, as well as old-money WASPs. ... Read more

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  • Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells

    The Best of Early Vanity Fair

    Edited by Graydon Carter, David Friend ...
    Offering readers an inebriating swig from the great cocktail shaker of the Roaring Twenties—the Jazz Age, the age of Gatsby—Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells showcases unforgettable writers in search of how to live well in a changing era.Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter introduces these fabulous pieces written between 1913 and 1936, when the magazine published a Murderers’ Row of the ... Read more

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