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Stephen Leacock:	Gertrude the governess: or simple seventeen
Maurice Baring:	King Lear's daughter
H. L. Mencken:	Recollections of notable cops
Damon Runyon:	Butch minds the baby
P. G. Wodehouse:	Ukridge's accident syndicate
Ring Lardner:	The busher's honeymoon
Marianne Moore:	Correspondence with David Wallace
Robert Benchley:	Opera synopses
George S. Kaufman:	If men played cards as women do

Groucho Marx:	Letters to Warner Brothers and Gummo Marx
Frank Sullivan:	The cliche expert testifies on love
J. B. Morton:	The intrusions of Captain Foulenough
James Thurber:	The breaking up of the Winships
E. B. White:	Across the street and into the grill
Wolcott Gibbs:	Time..Fortune...Life...Luce
Stella Gibbons:	Excerpt from Cold comfort farm
Evelyn Waugh:	Winner takes all
A. J. Liebling:	Nothing but a little pissant

S. J. Perlman:	Farewell, my lovely appetizer
Leo Rosten:	Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N, the comparative and the superlative
Eudora Welty:	Why I live at the PO
Peter de Vries:	Requiem for a noun, or intruder in the dusk
Flann O'Brien (Myles na Gopaleen):	Keats and Chapman
John Chever:	The chaste Clarissa
Oliver Jensen:	The Gettysburg Address in Eisenhowerese
Saul Bellow:	Excerpt from To Jerusalem and back
Jessica Mitford:	Emigration
Kingsley Amis:	Another goddam Englishman

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.:	Report on the barnhouse effect
Joseph Heller:	Gold's stepmother
John Mortimer:	Excerpt from Clinging to the wreckage
Jean Kerr:	Toujours tristresse
Truman Capote:	A day's work
Terry Southern:	I am Mike Hammer
Thomas Berger:	Chef Reinhart
Russell Baker:	Bomb math

Art Buchwald:	Saving paper
Kenneth Tynan:	Just plain folks
Thomas Meehan:	Yma dream
Stanley Elkin:	Bernie Perk
Bruce Jay Friedman:	The lonely guy's apartment
Wilfred Sheed:	Four hacks
Donald Barthelme:	Game

V. S. Naipaul:	The mechanical genius
Tom Wolfe:	The mid-atlantic man
Philip Roth:	Whacking off
Beryl Bainbridge:	Dinner at Binny's
Woody Allen:	The Kugelmass episode
Bruce McCall:	Popular workbench
Calvin Trillin:	Dinner at the De La Rentas'
Dan Greenburg:	How to be a Jewish mother
Cyra McFadden:	Hip wedding on Mount Tam
Alan Coren:	Long ago and far away
Marshall Brickman:	The analytic napkin
Alexander Theroux:	Mrs. Proby gets hers

Nora Ephron:	A few words about breasts
Max Apple:	The oranging of America
Roy Blount, Jr.:	Trash no more
Veronica Geng:	My Mao
Garrison Keillor:	Shy rights: why not pretty soon?
Lisa Alther:	The commune
Lynn Caraganis:	America's Cup '83: the Sherpa challenge
Fran Lebowitz:	Notes on "Trick"
Ian Frazier.:	Dating your mom