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245 0 4 _aThe fun of it :
_bstories from the talk of the town, the New Yorker /
_cLillian Ross
250 _aModern Library pbk. edition
260 _aNew York :
_bModern Library,
_c2001
300 _axxi, 478 pages ;
_c24 cm
505 0 _aIntroduction / David Remnick -- "Up the Dark Stairs -" / Robert Benchley -- A Marquise at Home / Author Unknown -- The King's Pajamas / Bill Corum -- Might Have Been -- / Author Unknown -- Cal and Belles Lettres / Author Unknown -- Modest Mr. Shaw / Author Unknown -- Vachel Lindsay / Author Unknown -- Fence Buster / Author Unknown -- The Sin of Adams / Russel Crouse -- Dime Novel / Author Unknown -- The Old Lady / James Thurber -- Music Makers / James Thurber -- Potter's Field / E.B. White -- Harriett / E.B. White -- Dancing Couple / James Thurber -- Big Boy / James Thurber and Harold Ross -- Newsreel / Robert M. Coates -- Calder's Circus / Robert M. Coates and James Thurber -- Isadora's Brother / E.B. White -- Soup of the Evening / Robert M. Coates and Geoffrey Hellman -- Corsets de Luxe / Geoffrey Hellman -- Painter in Town / Murdock Pemberton and E.B. White -- Severest Critic / E.B. White -- Angel / James Thurber -- The High Place / James Thurber -- Trivia / E.B. White and Harold Ross -- Tex and Ella / James Thurber and Harold Ross -- Al / James Thurber -- The Flying Spot / James Thurber -- Oxford Man / Charles Cooke and Harold Ross -- The Frescoer / James Thurber -- Inaugural Blues / James Thurber and Harold Ross -- Long Range / Wolcott Gibbs -- High Hats / Joseph Mitchell, Charles Cooke and James Thurber / [and others] -- Great Men / James Thurber -- The Blues Man / James Thurber -- As Millions Cheer / Helen Cooke, Charles Cooke and Clifford Orr / [and others] -- House of Brick / Helen Cooke and E.B. White -- Lenox 1734 / James Thurber -- Jeann and Jimmy / William Shawn and James Thurber -- Bronx Tiger / Fred Wittner and James Thurber -- The Dakota / Charles Cooke and Harold Ross -- Gtde / James Thurber -- Miss Rand / A.J. Liebling and Harold Ross -- The Joyces / James Thurber -- Met's Maitre / Charles Cooke and Russell Maloney -- Dark Contralto / Charles Cooke and Russell Maloney -- Walter's Banks / Eugene Kinkead -- Knock of Opportunity / Alva Johnston and Harold Ross -- Deshabilleuse / A.J. Liebling -- Dead Pan Joe / Fred Wittner -- Et Tu, Shadow? / A.J. Liebling -- Leftist Revue / Charles Cooke -- Exiles in Princeton / E.J. Kahn -- Interne / Eugene Kinkead -- The Admiral's Chair / Eugene Kinkead -- Cookless Congressman / Geoffrey Hellman -- Prepared Pianist / Mary Webb and Berton Roueche -- Masterpiece / John McCarten -- The Celluloid Brassiere / Andy Logan -- Last Word / Andy Logan -- One Man's Family / Lillian Ross -- Absurdiste / A.J. Liebling -- Twelfth Night / Frances Lanahan -- After Ten Years / William Shawn, Niccolo Tucci and Geoffrey Hellman -- Lugubrious Mama / A.J. Liebling -- Live Merchandise / Herbert Warren Wind and Spencer Klaw -- Fugue / Lillian Ross -- Beckett / Jane Kramer -- Red Mittens! / Lillian Ross -- The McLuhan Metaphor / Jane Kramer -- Long-Winded Lady / Maeve Brennan -- Runouts, Kickouts, and Popouts at Gilgo Beach / James Stevenson -- Bike to Work / Hendrik Hertzberg -- Questions at Radio City / Hendrik Hertzberg -- The Postmaster / William Shawn -- Elvis! David! / Hendrik Hertzberg -- Almanac / Garrison Keillor -- Mays at St. Bernard's / Lillian Ross -- Elsewhere / Lola Finkelstein and Lillian Ross -- "Wonder Bar" / Anthony Hiss -- Dylan / Hendrik Hertzberg and George Trow -- New Boy / Hendrik Hertzberg -- Fancy / Lillian Ross -- Being Present / Jacqueline Onassis -- Leaving Motown / Jamaica Kincaid and George Trow -- Minnesota Fats / Ian Frazier -- Taxi Jokes / Mark Singer -- Twenty-five Thousandths of a Second / Ian Frazier -- Film / Ian Frazier -- Turnout / George Trow -- Still Wonderful / Mark Singer -- Flimmaker / Veronica Geng -- Intensive Care / Susan Orlean -- Word Perfect / David Handelman -- Cyberspace Has a V.I.P. Lounge, Too / John Seabrook -- Tou-Tou-Toukie, Hello / Hilton Als -- Russian Tennis: Advantage Yeltsin / George Plimpton -- The Shit-Kickers of Madison Avenue / Lillian Ross -- After Midnight / William Finnegan -- A Battalion of Bellas / James Traub -- A Dickensian Task / Brendan Gill -- The Times Embarks on New Ways to Get Out the Gray / Hendrik Hertzberg -- Son of est: The Terminator of Self-Doubt / Kurt Andersen -- Do the Rookies Know How Willie Mays Played? / Roger Angell -- Al Hirschfeld Blows Out His Candles / Philip Hamburger -- The World Was Invited to Noam Chomsky's Virtual Birthday Party / Rebecca Mead -- A Postmodernist Goes Shopping / Paul Goldberger -- Elegy for a Parking Space / John Seabrook -- A Little Bit of Audrey for Everyone / Daphne Merkin -- Bill and Hill, Meet Rob and Laura / Andy Borowitz -- Nostalgia for the Bygone Days of Feminist Family Feuding / Rebecca Mead -- The New Year Stumbles In / Anthony Lane -- The Well-Heeled and the Wonky Toast the Millennium / John Cassidy -- Two Menus / Steve Martin -- The Book to Have When the Killer Bees Arrive / David Owen -- The Fast-Food President Goes Haute Cuisine / Rebecca Mead -- What's in a Domain Name? / Julian Barnes -- How to Make the Most of Some Sexy Snapshots / Mark Singer -- The Guy Who Makes The President Funny / Jeffrey Toobin -- Naked and Truthful in the Bronx / Lillian Ross -- Nudie Pix Redux / Mark Singer -- Balloon Diplomacy for Elian / Rebecca Mead -- An Ode to Golf / John Updike -- A Rubin's Guide to Getting it All / Nick Paumgarten -- Quiz Whiz / Nancy Franklin -- Proverbs According to Dennis Miller / Johnny Carson -- The Goodest Guys / David Remnick -- An Analog Toast to the Digital Age / Lillian Ross.
520 _aThe best of the best: the first collection spanning the history of "The Talk of the Town", edited by the New Yorker staff member with the longest memory of all, Lillian Ross, who wrote her first "Talk" story in 1945 and remains one of the magazine's wittiest reporters.
630 4 _aNew Yorker (Nueva York, N.Y.: 1925)
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650 4 _aEnsayos estadounidenses
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_vPublicaciones periódicas
700 1 _aRoss, Lillian,
_d1918-2017
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