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This review is from: Laughing Matters - A Treasury of American Humor (Paperback)
Long an admirer of E. B. White's 1941 edition of "A Subtreasury of American Humor," author Gene Shalit felt that an update was needed. He began work on LAUGHING MATTERS - A CELEBRATION OF AMERICAN HUMOR in 1981, and published his 600-page compendium some six years later.
"Laughing Matters" includes prime samples of dozens of humorists, poets and artists, from classic authors like Mark Twain and Finley Peter Dunne, to early 20th Century greats (Benchley, Parker, Thurber, Saroyan, etc.), to stage, movie and radio excerpts, to popular comic strips, and farce from MAD Magazine and NATIONAL LAMPOON. The book has no chapter or category divisions. Shalit recommends that these short stories, poems, cartoons and article excerpts be read in order of publication, as there's a certain logical flow to the material. Thus for example, Philip Roth's "Letters to Einstein" is followed by a panel cartoon that illustrates an Albert Einstein quote. The majority of what's here is FIVE-STAR material. Points off however for Mr. Shalit's inclusion of a few favorites from his youth that may not measure up, also for some substantially reduced-in-size repros of magazine pages that can't be read without a magnifying glass. FOR COMPLETE CONTENTS LISTED BY AUTHOR, SEE COMMENT #1 (located below)
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