Skipping Christmas

Holidays on ice : with six new stories

Holidays on ice

Holidays on ice [sound recording]

Make something up : stories you can't unread

Short stories. Selections

Knock-knock -- Eleanor -- How Monkey got married, bought a house, and found happiness in Orlando -- Zombies -- Loser -- Red Sultan's big boy -- Romance -- Cannibal -- Why Coyote never had money for parking -- Phoenix -- The facts of life -- Cold calling -- The Toad Prince -- Smoke -- Torcher -- Liturgy -- Why Aardvark never landed on the moon -- Fetch -- Expedition -- Mister Elegant -- Tunnel of love -- Inclinations -- How a Jew saved Christmas.

Breakfast at Tiffany's and three stories

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breakfast at Tiffany's.

House of flowers.

Diamond guitar.

Christmas memory.

Breakfast at Tiffany's -- House of flowers -- A diamond guitar -- A Christmas memory.

Writings

The Library of America series ;

Library of America ;

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).