Fierce pajamas: an anthology of humor writing from the New Yorker

Death in the rumble seat / Wolcott Gibbs --

Dusk in fierce pajamas / E.B. White --

Across the street and into the grill / E.B. White --

On the sidewalk / John Updike --

Save my seat / Mike Nichols --

Hassidic tales, with a guide to their interpretation by the noted scholar / Woody Allen --

The ultimate diary / Howard Moss --

The analytic napkin / Marshall Brickman --

Who's who in the cast / Marshall Brickman --

Health department lists restaurant violations / Daniel Menaker --

The delts of Venus / Charles McGrath --

Notes from the edge conference / Roy Blount, Jr. --

LGA-ORD / Ian Frazier --

Love trouble is my business / Veronica Geng --

In the new Canada, living is a way of life / Bruce McCall --

Corrections / Calvin Trillin --

Stardate 12:00 12:00 12:00 / Christopher Buckley --

Glengarry glen plaid / Frank Cammuso and Hart Seely --

Gum / Scott Gutterman --

What we talk about when we talk about doughnuts / Michael Gerber and Jonathan Schwarz --

Teen times / Paul Rudnik --

Press agents I have known / Groucho Marx --

The greatest man in the world / James Thurber --

The interview / James Thurber --

Let's hear it for a beautiful guy / Bruce Jay Friedman --

The king of jazz / Donald Barthelme --

My Mao ; Our side of the story / Veronica Geng --

Do you know me? / George W.S. Trow --

Gandhi at the bat / Chet Williamson --

Igor Stravinsky: the selected phone calls / Ian Frazier --

We are still married ; Meeting famous people / Garrison Keillor --

Yo, Poe / Frank Gannon --

My life: a series of privately funded performance-art pieces / Susan Orlean --

The A-list E-list / David Brooks --

Mr. Preble gets rid of his wife ; A couple of hamburgers / James Thurber --

Forever panting / Peter De Vries --

The Kugelmass episode / Woody Allen --

Partners / Veronica Geng --

My married life: the whole truth thus far / Mark Singer --

Life without Leann / Larry Doyle --

Zeus the Lutheran / Garrison Keillor --

The very comical lament of Pyramus and Thisbe / Susan Sontag --

Off-ramp / Polly Frost --

Blown away / Lisa Walker --

Here's a really great idea / David Owen --

A short autobiography / F. Scott Fitzgerald --

The cliche expert takes the stand ; The cliche expert tells all / Frank Sullivan --

How to achieve success as a writer / Ruth Suckow --

The rather difficult case of Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N / Leonard Q. Ross --

The notebooks of James Thurber / James Thurber --

Are we losing the novel race? / Michael J. Arlen --

Roland Magruder, freelance writer / Calvin Trillin --

Contemporary writers VI: and interview with Grip Sands / Philip Hamburger --

In the dough / Roger Angell --

Selections from the Allen notebooks / Woody Allen --

I cover Carter / George W.S. Trow --

Notes on my conversations / Polly Frost --

Writing is easy! ; Drivel / Steve Martin --

Emily Dickinson, jerk of Amherst / Andy Borowitz --

The people who had the house before / Robert Benchley --

The catastrophe / William Shawn --

The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber --

I am not now, nor have I ever been, a matrix of lean meat ; Eine Kleine Mothmusik ; Monomania, you and me is quits / S.J. Perelman --

Pnin / Vladimir Nabokov --

Annoy Kaufman, Inc. / George S. Kaufman --

The last repository / H.F. Ellis --

Yma dream / Thomas Meehan --

Ainmosni / Roger Angell --

The high ground, or look, Ma, I'm explicating / Peter De Vries --

Apartment 6-A: after the fall / Ian Frazier --

Spill / George W.S. Trow --

Hearing from Wayne / Bill Franzen --

Stunned / Jack Handey --

He didn't go to Canada / Garrison Keillor --

Post-euphoria / Veronica Geng --

Keith Richards' desert-island disks / Noah Baumbach --

How to become obscene / Upton Sinclair --

Filling that hiatus ; It's fun to be fooled ... it's more fun to know ; Why we laugh

or do we? /

Robert Benchley --

Insert flap "A" and throw away / S.J. Perelman --

How to eat an ice- cream cone / L. Rust Hills --

Teaching poetry writing to singles / Veronica Geng --

Dating your mom ; A reading list for young writers / Ian Frazier --

How I write my songs / Donald Barthelme --

Save our bus herds! / Cathleen Schine --

Three great meals / William White --

Read this first / Bruce McCall --

Take it from me / Nancy Franklin --

Changes in the memory after fifty ; The hundred greatest books that I've read / Steve Martin --

Reintroducing me to my habitat ; Thank you for stopping / Jack Handey --

Homework: a parent's guide / Christopher Buckley --

What happened to my money? / David Owen --

On taxi drivers / Alexander Woollcott --

Father isn't much help / Clarence Day --

The night the ghost got in / James Thurber --

Ring out, wild bells / Wolcott Gibbs --

The ballet visits the splendide's magician / Ludwig Bemelmans --

Cloudland revisited: why, doctor, what big green eyes you have! / S.J. Perelman --

Thoughts on radio-televese / John Lardner --

The musical husbands / Adam Gopnik --

Listening to Bourbon / Louis Menand --

Look back in hunger / Anthony Lane --

Tennis personalities / Martin Amis --

Car talk / John Updike --

Critic / E.B. White --

Song to be disregarded ; To a perfumed lady at the concert ; Song of the queen bee / E.B. White --

Rhyme of an involuntary violet ; Fulfilment ; Bohemia / Dorothy Parker --

Mother's home again! / Don Marquis --

Melancholy reflections after a lost argument ; The seven ages of a newspaper subscriber ; Incident in the afternoon / Phyllis McGinley --

Procrastination is all of the time ; To my valentine ; So that's who I remind me of ; Compliments of a friend ; The invitation says from five to seven / Ogden Nash --

Theme and variation / Peter De Vries --

People / W.H. Auden --

Six poets in search of a lawyer / Donald Hall --

The naked and the nude / Robert Graves --

12 o'clock news / Elizabeth Bishop --

Christmas in Qatar / Calvin Trillin --

Duet, with muffled brake drums ; Ocular hypertension / John Updike.