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.
"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."---Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow...