One of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. Life Stories - Profiles from The New Yorker If laughter is the best medicine, Disquiet, Please! is truly a wonder drug. The comic lineup includes Christopher Buckley, Ian Frazier, Veronica Geng, Garrison Keillor, Steve Martin, Susan Orlean, Simon Rich, David Sedaris, Calvin Trillin, and many others.
From the 1920s onward-but with a special focus on the latest generation-here are the humorists who have set the pace and stirred the pot, pulled the leg and pinched the behind of America. Now an uproarious sampling of its funny writings can be found in this collection, by turns satirical and witty, misanthropic and menacing. But for eighty years it’s also been a hoot. The New Yorker is, of course, a bastion of superb essays, influential investigative journalism, and insightful arts criticism. “The Long Ride” by Michael Specter “Born Slippy” by John Seabrook “The Chosen One” by David Owen “Legend of a Sport” by Alva Johnston “A Man-Child in Lotusland” by Rebecca Mead “Dangerous Game” by Nick Paumgarten “The Running Novelist” by Haruki Murakami “Back to the Basement” by Nancy Franklin “Playing Doc’s Games” by William Finnegan “Last of the Metrozoids” by Adam Gopnik “The Sandy Frazier Dream Team” by Ian Frazier “Br’er Rabbit Ball” by Ring Lardner “The Greens of Ireland” by Herbert Warren Wind “Tennis Personalities” by Martin Amis “Project Knuckleball” by Ben McGrath “Game Plan” by Don DeLillo “The Art of Failure” by Malcolm Gladwell “Swimming with Sharks” by Charles Sprawson “The National Pastime” by John Cheever “SNO” by Calvin Trillin “Musher” by Susan Orlean “Home and Away” by Peter Hessler “No Obstacles” by Alec Wikinson “A Stud’s Life” by Kevin Conley Disquiet, Please! - More Humor Writing from The New Yorker Liebling “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu” by John Updike “The Only Games in Town” by Anthony Lane “Race Track” by Bill Barich “A Sense of Where You Are” by John McPhee “El Único Matador” by Lillian Ross “Net Worth” by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Including: “The Web of the Game” by Roger Angell “Ahab and Nemesis” by A. At The New Yorker, it’s not whether you win or lose-it’s how you write about the game. Open, the greatest plays and players, past and present, are all covered in The Only Game in Town. From Lance Armstrong to bullfighter Sidney Franklin, from the Chinese Olympics to the U.S. John Cheever pens a story about a boy’s troubled relationship with his father and the national pastime. Hall of Famer Ring Lardner is here, bemoaning the lowering of standards for baseball achievement-in 1930. The Only Game in Town is a classic collection from a magazine with a deep bench, including such authors as Roger Angell, John Updike, Don DeLillo, and John McPhee. The Only Game in Town - Sportswriting from The New Yorkerįor more than eighty years, The New Yorker has been home to some of the toughest, wisest, funniest, and most moving sportswriting around. Whether you’re in the mood for snacking on humor pieces and cartoons or for savoring classic profiles of great chefs and great eaters, these offerings, from every age of The New Yorker’s fabled eighty-year history, are sure to satisfy every taste. There is Roald Dahl’s famous story “Taste,” in which a wine snob’s palate comes in for some unwelcome scrutiny, and Julian Barnes’s ingenious tale of a lifelong gourmand who goes on a very peculiar diet. Fisher pays homage to “cookery witches,” those mysterious cooks who possess “an uncanny power over food,” and Adam Gopnik asks if French cuisine is done for. Calvin Trillin on New York’s best bagel In this indispensable collection, The New Yorker dishes up a feast of delicious writing–food and drink memoirs, short stories, tell-alls, and poems, seasoned with a generous dash of cartoons.Malcolm Gladwell on building a better ketchup.Roger Angell on the art of the martini.Secret Ingredients - The New Yorker Book of Food and DrinkĪ sample of the menu: Woody Allen on dieting the Dostoevski way
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