Snooze: The Best of Our Magazine (Unauthorized Parody)

Alfred Gingold; John Buskin

ISBN 10: 089480118X / ISBN 13: 9780894801181

Published by Workman Pub Co, 1986

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G089480118XI4N00

Synopsis:

A parody of "The New Yorker" includes fifty cartoons, a short story by Irving Bathsheba Single entitled "The Goyim," and an essay on bowling by Roger Devill called "The Rumbling of the Ball"

Reviews: Familiarity with the New Yorker's distinctive style and stable of writers helps the reader to appreciate fully this parody. The chuckles start with "Lettuce Anyone?" by Alexander Woolcott Gibbs and continue with John McPhumpher's "Annals of Sand" series, Dike Upjohn's "Of the Breezeway," Susan Stooptag's "Down and Backward with the Arts" and Elizabeth Drone's "Giant Postcard from Washington." A particularly effective piece is "Moveable Feasts," a spoof of a typical "Talk of the Town" item, in which "we" wander the streets in search of the quintessential quick lunchan item complete with drawings of hot dogs (with and without sauerkraut), "tired and sweaty" fruit cups and "leaden" hot pretzels. "A Perfect Day for Banana Daiquiris" by D. J. Balinger wins the funniest fiction prize. Although this humor is certainly on target, it's best read in several sittings since the joke wears thin after the first several hundred pages. 75,000 first printing.
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Bibliographic Details

Title: Snooze: The Best of Our Magazine (...
Publisher: Workman Pub Co
Publication Date: 1986
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket