Dragons at Crumbling Castle [sound recording] : and other tales

Dragons at Crumbling Castle : and other tales

Short stories. Selections

The witch's vacuum cleaner and other stories

Short stories. Selections

The witch's vacuum cleaner -- The great train robbery -- The truly terrible toothache -- The frozen feud -- Darby and the submarine -- The sheep rodeo scandal -- The ant called 4179003 -- The fire opal -- Lord Cake and the Battle for Banwen's Beacon -- The time-traveling television -- The Blackbury Park statues -- Wizard war -- The extraordinary adventures of Doggins -- Rincemangle, the gnome of Even Moor.

Let me tell you : new stories, essays, and other writings

Works. Selections. 2015

Paranoia.

Still life with teapot and students.

Arabian nights.

Mrs. Spencer and the Oberons.

It isn't the money I mind.

Company for dinner.

I cannot sing the old songs.

New maid.

French is the mark of a lady.

Gaudeamus Igitur.

Foreword : "I think I know her " / Sudden and unusual things have happened: unpublished and uncollected short fiction. Paranoia ; Still life with teapot and students ; The Arabian nights ; Mrs. Spencer and the Oberons ; It isn't the money I mind ; Company for dinner ; I cannot sing the old songs ; The new maid ; French is the mark of a lady ; Gaudeamus igitur ; The lie ; She says the damnedest things ; Remembrance of things past ; Let me tell you ; Bulletin ; Family treasures ; Showdown ; The trouble with my husband ; Six A.M. is the hour ; Root of evil ; The bridge game ; The man in the woods -- I would rather write than do anything else: essays and reviews. Autobiographical musings ; A garland of garlands ; Hex me, daddy, eight to the bar ; Clowns ; A vroom for Dr. Seuss ; Notes on an unfashionable novelist ; Private showing ; Good old house ; The play's the thing ; The ghosts of Loiret ; "Well?" -- When this war is over: early short stories. The sorcerer's apprentice ; Period piece ; 4-F party ; The paradise ; Homecoming ; Daughter, come home ; As high as the sky ; Murder on Miss Lederer's birthday -- Somehow things haven't turned out quite the way we expected: humor and family. Here I am, washing dishes again ; In praise of dinner table silence ; Questions I wish I'd never asked ; Mother, honestly! ; How to enjoy a family quarrel ; The pleasures and perils of dining out with children ; Out of the mouths of babes ; The real me ; On girls of thirteen ; What I want to know is, what do other people cook with? -- I'd like to see you get out of that sentence: lectures about the craft of writing. About the end of the world ; Memory and delusion ; On fans and fan mail ; How I write fiction ; Garlic in fiction --

Writings

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Introduction: Perelman, the Pearl of Providence / Puppets of passion: a throbbing story of youth's hot revolt against the conventions -- Those charming people: the latest report on the Weinbloom reptile expedition -- Scenario -- Strictly from hunger -- The love decoy: a story of youth in college today-awake, fearless, unashamed -- Waiting for Santy: a Christmas playlet -- Frou-frou, or the future of vertigo -- Captain future, block that kick! -- Midwinter facial trends -- Counter-revolution -- Beat me, post-impressionist Daddy -- A pox on you, mine goodly host -- Bend down, sister -- Beauty and the bee -- Button, button, who's got the blend? -- Swing out, sweet chariot -- A couple of quick ones: two portraits -- Hell in the Gabardines -- Farewell, my lovely appetizer -- Hit him again, he's sober -- Physician, steel thyself -- Take two parts sand, one part girl, and stir -- Sleepy-time extra -- Amo, Amas, Amat, Amamus, Amatis, enough! -- Send no money, honey -- Acres and pains: chapter one -- Acres and pains: chapter twelve -- Don't bring me Oscars (when it's shoesies that I need -- Rancors aweigh -- Mama don't want no rice -- Columbia, the crumb of the ocean -- Whenas in sulks my Julia goes -- Cloudland revisited: why, doctor, what big green eyes you have! -- Chewies the goat but flicks need hypo -- Salesman, spare that psyche -- The song is endless, but the malady lingers on -- A girl and a boy anthropoid were dancing -- Cloudland revisited: rock-a-bye, viscount, in the treetop -- Cloudland revisited: when to the sessions of sweet silent films -- No starch in the Dhoti, Sʹil vous plaît -- Cloudland revisited: the wickedest woman in Larchmont -- Swindle sheet with blueblood engrailed, arrant fibs rampant -- Cloudland revisited: I'm sorry I made me cry -- Sorry- no phone or mail orders -- Next week at the Prado: Frankie Goya plus monster cast -- You're my everything, plus city sales tax -- Eline Kleine Mothmusik -- Where do you work-a, John? -- Portrait of the artist as a young mime -- This is the forest primeval -- Impresario on the Lam -- Revulsion in the desert -- Are you decent, Memsahib? -- Tell me clear, parachutist dear, are you man or mouse? -- Sex and the single boy -- A soft answer turneth away royalties -- Hello, central, give me that jolly old pelf -- The sweet chick gone -- Nobody knows the rubble I've seen/nobody knows but croesus -- Three loves had I, in assorted flavors -- Be a cat's-paw! Lose big money! -- Moonstruck at sunset.

The beauty part: a comedy in two acts -- The Marx Brothers -- Nathanael West -- Dorothy Parker -- To Edmund Wilson (September 2, 1929) -- To I.J. Kapstein (October 9, 1930) -- To Groucho Marx (April 7, 1943) -- To Frances and Albert Hackett (August 14, 1949) -- To Abby Perelman (April 15, 1954) -- To Leila Hadley (August 21, 1955) -- To Leila Hadley (September 16, 1955) -- To Betsy Drake (September 28, 1955) -- To Leila Hadley (August 25, 1956) -- To Leila Hadley (November 22, 1956) -- To Paul Theroux (October 18, 1976) -- To Paul Theroux (December 24, 1976).