If you live in the Midwest, you have to know how to laugh. Tornados, floods, drought, and miles and miles of flat land: if you don't have a sense of humor, you might want to consider living somewhere else. Humor is as natural to the Midwest as cow pats and corn mazes, seed caps and road kill, Johnny Carson and David Letterman. This book gathers some of the best stories from the humorists of the big belly of America, past and present. Here are Mark Twain, George Ade, Finley Peter Dunne, Don Marquis, and Ring Lardner; James Thurber, Ruth McKenney, Erma Bombeck, Calvin Trillin, and Garrison…mehr
If you live in the Midwest, you have to know how to laugh. Tornados, floods, drought, and miles and miles of flat land: if you don't have a sense of humor, you might want to consider living somewhere else. Humor is as natural to the Midwest as cow pats and corn mazes, seed caps and road kill, Johnny Carson and David Letterman. This book gathers some of the best stories from the humorists of the big belly of America, past and present. Here are Mark Twain, George Ade, Finley Peter Dunne, Don Marquis, and Ring Lardner; James Thurber, Ruth McKenney, Erma Bombeck, Calvin Trillin, and Garrison Keillor-Midwesterners, one and all. There's even a piece from William Dean Howells, not usually known for his knock-me-down humor. You'll also find tales from Ambrose Bierce, Kin Hubbard, Sinclair Lewis, Mike Royko, Donald Kaul, P. J. O'Rourke, and Bill Bryson. Here is a book to curl up with when the cows don't come home, the crick's flooded, and the fox has bedded down in the henhouse. It'll put a smile on your face and make you glad you don't live in New York City, even if you do.
Contents Introduction Mark Twain (1835-1910) How to Tell a Story The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County The Story of the Good Little Boy The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm William Dean Howells (1837-1920) Christmas Every Day Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914 ?) Curried Cow An Imperfect Conflagration George Ade (1866-1944) The Wonderful Meal of Vittles The Patient Toiler Who Got It in the Usual Place The Fable of How the Fool-Killer Backed Out of a Contract The Fable of the Copper and the Jovial Undergrads Everybody's Friend and the Line Bucker Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936) On War Preparations On His Cousin George On Reform Candidates Frank McKinley "Kin" Hubbard (1868-1930) The People Gossip The Amy Purviance Murder Case Don Marquis (1878-1937) Introducing the Old Soak Look Out for Crime Waves! The Barroom and the Arts Ring Lardner (1885-1933) Alibi Ike Haircut Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) George F. Babbitt Begins His Day James Thurber (1894-1961) The Night the Bed Fell University Days Ruth McKenney (1911-1972) A Loud Sneer for Our Feathered Friends Erma Bombeck (1927-1996) Don't Worry . . . I'll Manage The Garage Sale The Ides of May "Mom and Dad! I'm Home" Mike Royko (1932-1997) A Pitch for Opening Day View from Hoosierdome Indiana's Not Alone Donald Kaul (1925- ) House Calls and Other Folk Medicine Eat Your Heart Out, Luther Burbank Calvin Trillin (1935- ) Alice, Let's Eat Missouri Uncompromised Pinko Problems Garrison Keillor (1942- ) Home P. J. (Patrick Jake) O'Rourke (1947- ) Intellectual Wilderness, Ho-A Visit to Harvard's 350th Anniversary Celebration Bill Bryson (1951- ) Des Moines
Contents Introduction Mark Twain (1835-1910) How to Tell a Story The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County The Story of the Good Little Boy The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm William Dean Howells (1837-1920) Christmas Every Day Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914 ?) Curried Cow An Imperfect Conflagration George Ade (1866-1944) The Wonderful Meal of Vittles The Patient Toiler Who Got It in the Usual Place The Fable of How the Fool-Killer Backed Out of a Contract The Fable of the Copper and the Jovial Undergrads Everybody's Friend and the Line Bucker Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936) On War Preparations On His Cousin George On Reform Candidates Frank McKinley "Kin" Hubbard (1868-1930) The People Gossip The Amy Purviance Murder Case Don Marquis (1878-1937) Introducing the Old Soak Look Out for Crime Waves! The Barroom and the Arts Ring Lardner (1885-1933) Alibi Ike Haircut Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) George F. Babbitt Begins His Day James Thurber (1894-1961) The Night the Bed Fell University Days Ruth McKenney (1911-1972) A Loud Sneer for Our Feathered Friends Erma Bombeck (1927-1996) Don't Worry . . . I'll Manage The Garage Sale The Ides of May "Mom and Dad! I'm Home" Mike Royko (1932-1997) A Pitch for Opening Day View from Hoosierdome Indiana's Not Alone Donald Kaul (1925- ) House Calls and Other Folk Medicine Eat Your Heart Out, Luther Burbank Calvin Trillin (1935- ) Alice, Let's Eat Missouri Uncompromised Pinko Problems Garrison Keillor (1942- ) Home P. J. (Patrick Jake) O'Rourke (1947- ) Intellectual Wilderness, Ho-A Visit to Harvard's 350th Anniversary Celebration Bill Bryson (1951- ) Des Moines
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