The BEST AMERICAN HUMOR 1994 - Softcover

Waldoks, Moshe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0020381093 ISBN 13: 9780020381099

Publisher: Scribner Paper Fiction, 1994

Synopsis

This debut collection of The Best American Humor celebrates the funniest short stories, essays, articles, and excerpts of the past year. The more than 40 entries in this edition feature some of the most well-known wits and humorists, including Garry Trudeau, Russell Baker, Paul Rudnick, Douglas Coupland, Garrison Keillor, Conan O'Brien, Philip Roth, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and John Updike among others. Edited by Moshe Waldoks, who co-edited the bestselling The Big Book of Jewish Humor and The Big Book of New American Humor, this volume -- the only "best of the year" humor anthology -- is a hilarious, cynical, witty, sarcastic, and laugh-out-loud look at the funny side of existence and survival. The Best American Humor 1994 is sure to delight all lovers of fun and laughter.
Contributors
Jerry Adler
Meredith Anthony
Russell Baker
Stanley Bing
T. Coraghessan Boyle
Ron Carlson
Mark Childress
Andrei Codrescu
Douglas Coupland
Jim Crotty
Amanda Filipacchi
Karen Finley
Ian Frazier
Frank Gannon
Jim Garner
Libby Gellman-Waxner
Veronica Geng
Molly Giles
Robert Grossman
Michael Guinzberg
Cynthia Heimel
Robin Hemley
Harold Jaffe
Garrison Keillor
Mike Lane
Bryon Lanning
Mark Leyner
Gordon Lish
Bruce McCall
Daniel Mendelsohn
Ron Nyswaner
Conan O'Brien
Emily Prager
Philip Roth
Paul Rudnick
Cathleen Schine
Steve Stern
Linda Sunshine
Garry Trudeau
John Updike
Wendy Wasserstein

About this title

About the Author:

Moshe Waldoks is the co-editor of the bestselling The Big Book of Jewish Humor and The Big Book of New American Humor. He lives in Massachusetts.

From Kirkus Reviews:

``Lady vampires demand their own blood bank!'' Not one to let shame get in the way of compiling a funny book, Waldoks (co-editor, The Big Book of Jewish Humor, not reviewed) even looks at the front page of the Weekly World News, the tabloid of tabloids, from which he pulled the above headline. Also in the ``Miscellaneous'' section of mostly found humor are headlines from real newspapers (``Prostitutes appeal to pope''; ``Survivor of Siamese twins joins parents'') and a gag about not putting ``Descartes before the horse.'' Waldoks has also collected articles and essays by the likes of Emily Prager, Stanley Bing, and Douglas Coupland; sketches and short fiction from folks as diverse as Garrison Keillor and Karen Finley, the two of whom surely never expected to find themselves together between the covers (of the same book); and excerpts from longer works by Philip Roth, Andrei Codrescu, and others. Funny stuff, in all shapes and sizes, some of it cornball camp and some of it sophisticated. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner Paper Fiction
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0020381093
• ISBN 13: 9780020381099
• Binding: Paperback