Mirth of a nation : the best contemporary humor
"You'll never groom dogs in this town again!" ; Café Manhattan ; The young man and the sea ; How to be difficult / The Yanni files / A prayer for Bill Clinton / Independence Day ; Parlez-vous français? ; An aesthetically challenged American in Paris, part II / You could look me up sometime ; I go to golf school / A Graceland for Adolf ; Upcoming house votes / Let's hear it for cheerleaders ; Lapses of photographic memories ; A year-round tan for the asking ; The bane of every vacation : souvenirs / Memo from coach ; As I was saying to Henry Kissinger ... / Away from it all ; Give one for the team / God, help me! ; Autumn of the matriarch / Future schlock / What we told the kids ; Un caballo in maschera / The midwest : where is it? / Come stay with us ; Desert surprise: Saddam picks Bill ; Return Saddam's limo ... now! / Laws concerning food and drink; household principles; lamentations of the father / Flowers of evil: ask Charles Baudelaire ; Authors with the most ; Long day's journey into abs ; Yankee, come home / A good man is hard to keep: The correspondence of Flannery O'Connor and S.J. Perelman / Testing, testing ... ; The cheese stands alone ; Post-euphoria / Why are kids so dumb ; Clarifications ; What we talk about when we talk about little green men ; Design intervention / Too late to become a gondolier? ; Me and my delusions ; Eating the desk ; Into the giga jungle / The hidden life of rocks ; Degas, c'est moi ; You say tomato, I say tomorrow ; Chicken à la Descartes
Even more memoirs by even more McCourts ; Love bug ; More mergers / Rejected polls / Driving Mr. Crazy ; Red diaper baby / Money / Trout ; Jumpin' jiminy ; Space travel food / Piscopo Agonistes / The way of the ear ; Eleventh-hour bride / I network with angels ; Phone hex ; Birthdays: so now what? / Things that are confusing ; How and why book of magnets ; Joyce Maynard looking back ; Bad numbers / Sunken treasure / One guy's TV ; After this word from Motel 3 ; O.J.: the trial of the next century ; Scrambling for dollars ; Gambling in the schools / Diary of a genius ; TV Guide, soon ; My genetic memories ; The last publicist on earth / Memoir essay / March / No strings attached ; Ferret-face ; Barnes ennobled / T.G.I.Y2K! / All happy families ; Christmas freud ; El Niño has a headache ; In New England everyone calls you Dave / The million millionaires march ; Wing Tsu ; T.S. Eliot interactive ; Buy me / Rejected celebrity cab announcements ; Conspir-U.S.-cy history ; Dysfunctional adult education catalogue ; The all-purpose concession speech / Front row center with Thaddeus Bristol / Humor thy father / Khmer Roué ; Taking the A train to early retirement / A few notes on sex education / The last supper, or The dead waiter ; Pen pals / I am a tip-top starlet ; To our valued customers ; Getting over getting stoned / Manifesto ; Glad rags / From: Corporation communications at CRT301
Rosen, Michael J., 1954-
Henry Alford -- Kurt Andersen -- David Bader -- Dave Barry -- Roy Blount Jr. -- Zev Borow -- David Bouchier -- Christopher Buckley -- Frank Cammuso and Hart Seely -- Rich Cohen -- Cathy Crimmins -- Prudence Crowther -- Michael Feldman -- Bill Franzen -- Ian Frazier -- Frank Gannon -- Veronica Geng and Garrison Keillor -- Veronica Geng -- Chris Harris -- Paul Hellman -- David Ives --
Jay Jennings -- Chris Kelly -- Josh Kornbluth -- Fran Lebowitz -- Franz Lidz -- Franz Lidz and Steve Rushin -- Sandra Tsing Loh -- Merrill Markoe -- Patricia Marx -- Daniel Menaker -- Howard Mohr -- Mark O'Donnell -- P.J. O'Rourke -- Samuel Pickering Jr. -- Daniel Radosh -- Daniel Radosh and John Aboud -- David Rakoff -- Michael Rubiner -- Bill Scheft -- David Sedaris -- Stephen Sherrill -- Stephen Sherrill and Paul Tough -- Bob Smith -- Jon Stewart -- Garry Trudeau -- John Updike -- Colleen Werthmann.
edited by Michael J. Rosen.
