Representing more than seventy-five years worth of outstanding humor writing from The New Yorker, this entertaining anthology features hilarious spoofs, parodies, short fiction, reviews, and reporting by James Thurber, Dorothy Parker, Woody Allen, Garrison Keillor, Steve Martin, Roz Chast, Vladimir Nabokov, and other notable authors.
The third novel in Annie Murray's "Birmingham" series. While Genie's father is away fighting in World War II, her mother has a ruinous affair which leaves her pregnant; Genie's little brother leaves, never to return; while Genie herself meets a man who then disappears to war.