{"product_id":"disquiet-please-more-humor-writing-from-the-new-yorker-9781400068012","title":"Disquiet  Please!: More Humor Writing from The New Yorker","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe New Yorker is  of course  a bastion of superb essays  influential investigative journalism  and insightful arts criticism. But for eighty years  its also been a hoot. In fact  when Harold Ross founded the legendary magazine in 1925  he called it a comic weekly  and while it has grown into much more  it has also remained true to its original mission. Now an uproarious sampling of its funny writings can be found in a hilarious new collection  one as satirical and witty  misanthropic and menacing  as the first  Fierce Pajamas. From the 1920s onwardbut with a special focus on the latest generationhere are the humorists who set the pace and stirred the pot  pulled the leg and pinched the behind of America.  S. J. Perelman unearths the furious letters of a foreign correspondent in India to the laundry he insists on using in Paris (Who charges six francs to wash a cummerbund?!). Woody Allen recalls the Whore of Mensa  who excites her customers by reading Proust (or  if you want  two girls will explain Noam Chomsky). Steve Martins pill bottle warns us of side effects ranging from hair that smells of burning tires to teeth receiving radio broadcasts. Andy Borowitz provides his version of theater-lobby notices (In Act III  there is full frontal nudity  but not involving the actor you would like to see naked). David Owens rules for dating his ex-wife start out magnanimous and swiftly disintegrate into sarcasm  self-loathing  and rage  and Noah Baumbach unfolds a history of his last relationship in the form of Zagat reviews.  Meanwhile  off in a remote willage in Normandy  David Sedaris is drowning a mouse (This was for the best  whether the mouse realized it or not).  Plus asides  fancies  rebukes  and musings from Patty Marx  Calvin Trillin  Bruce McCall  Garrison Keillor  Veronica Geng  Ian Frazier  Roy Blount  Jr.  and many others.  If laughter is the best medicine  Disquiet  Please is truly a wonder drug.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45953349419061,"sku":"ByrdShop_1400068010","price":21.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781400068012.jpg?v=1788186050","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/disquiet-please-more-humor-writing-from-the-new-yorker-9781400068012","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}