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Disquiet, Please!

More Humor Writing from The New Yorker

by David Remnick
Henry Finder
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The New Yorker is, of course, a bastion of superb essays, influential investigative journalism, and insightful arts criticism. But for eighty years, it’s also been a hoot. In fact, when Harold Ross founded the legendary magazine in 1925, he called it “a comic weekly,” and while it has grown into much more, it has also remained true to its original mission. Now an uproarious sampling of its funny writings can be found in a hilarious new collection, one as satirical and witty, misanthropic and menacing, as the first, Fierce Pajamas. From the 1920s onward–but with a special focus on the latest generation–here are the humorists who set the pace and stirred the pot, pulled the leg and pinched the behind of America.
S. J. Perelman unearths the furious letters of a foreign correspondent in India to the laundry he insists on using in Paris (“Who charges six francs to wash a cummerbund?!”). Woody Allen recalls the “Whore of Mensa,” who excites her customers by reading Proust (or, if you want, two girls will explain Noam Chomsky). Steve Martin’s pill bottle warns us of side effects ranging from hair that smells of burning tires to teeth receiving radio broadcasts. Andy Borowitz provides his version of theater-lobby notices (“In Act III, there is full frontal nudity, but not involving the actor you would like to see naked”). David Owen’s rules for dating his ex-wife start out magnanimous and swiftly disintegrate into sarcasm, self-loathing, and rage, and Noah Baumbach unfolds a history of his last relationship in the form of Zagat reviews.
Meanwhile, off in a remote “willage” in Normandy, David Sedaris is drowning a mouse (“This was for the best, whether the mouse realized it or not”).
Plus asides, fancies, rebukes, and musings from Patty Marx, Calvin Trillin, Bruce McCall, Garrison Keillor, Veronica Geng, Ian Frazier, Roy Blount, Jr., and many others.
If laughter is the best medicine, Disquiet, Please is truly a wonder drug.

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    November 18, 2008

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    • Library Journal

      December 15, 2008
      This anthology follows the 2001 publication of "Fierce Pajamas", the first collection of humorous pieces from "The New Yorker". Familiar humorists from earlier generations, such as E.B. White, S.J. Perelman, and James Thurber, are joined by more contemporary writers like Calvin Trillin, Garrison Keillor, and Steve Martin. The emphasis, however, is on newcomers of the past few years, including such notables as Yoni Brenner and Larry Doyle. Remnick and Finder, editor and editorial director, respectively, of "The New Yorker", use 14 categories to group the pieces, which are generally tongue-in-cheek or full of parody and make you smile, chuckle, or laugh out loud. Not all may be to your taste, but there is enough variety to have wide appeal. With takeoffs on Aesop's fables, Donald Rumsfeld, how to operate a cell phone, and, dear to librarians' hearts, how to cite materials, this title will be a good addition to your collection. Recommended especially for public libraries.Gina Kaiser, Univ. of the Sciences in Philadelphia Lib.

      Copyright 2008 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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