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The Algonquin Wits

Author	: Robert E. Drennan
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1968
ISBN 10	: STANFORD:36105034848080
Pages	: 176 pages
Rating	: 4.O/5 (36 users)

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Download or read book The Algonquin Wits written by Robert E. Drennan and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the nineteen-twenties and thirties the hub of America's wit and humor was the famed Round Table in the Rose Room of the Algonquin Hotel in New York City. Gathering there regularly were some of the sharpest minds (and pens) of literature and the theatre: Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, Franklin P. Adams, Alexander Woollcott, Heywood Broun, and Ring Lardner foremost among them. Frequent visitors to the Round Table were such luminaries as Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber, Noel Coward, John Peter Toohey, Harold Ross, Tallulah Bankhead, Harpo Marx, and Robert E. Sherwood. Collectively, they formed a group they themselves preferred to call the "Vicious Circle," with a poker-playing subsidiary called the Thanatopsis Literary and Inside Straight Club. For decades now, their bons mots have been quoted wherever urbane people gather, until many of them have become part of the language. Do you know, for example, who first said, "Let's get out of wet clothes and into a dry martini"? Or "All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening"? This delightful book has the answers--plus hundreds of other quotable sayings from the golden days of the Algonquin wits."--Jacket.

The Algonquin Round Table New York

Author	: Kevin C. Fitzpatrick
Publisher	: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date	: 2015-02-07
ISBN 10	: 9781493016730
Pages	: 288 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (167 users)

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Download or read book The Algonquin Round Table New York written by Kevin C. Fitzpatrick and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-02-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "That is the thing about New York," wrote Dorothy Parker in 1928. "It is always a little more than you had hoped for. Each day, there, is so definitely a new day." Now you can journey back there, in time, to a grand city teeming with hidden bars, luxurious movie palaces, and dazzling skyscrapers. In these places, Dorothy Parker and her cohorts in the Vicious Circle at the infamous Algonquin Round Table sharpened their wit, polished their writing, and captured the energy and elegance of the time. Robert Benchley, Parker’s best friend, became the first managing editor of Vanity Fair before Irving Berlin spotted him onstage in a Vicious Circle revue and helped launch his acting career. Edna Ferber, an occasional member of the group, wrote the Pulitzer-winning bestseller So Big as well as Show Boat and Cimarron. Jane Grant pressed her first husband, Harold Ross, into starting The New Yorker. Neysa McMein, reputedly “rode elephants in circus parades and dashed from her studio to follow passing fire engines.” Dorothy Parker wrote for Vanity Fair and Vogue before ascending the throne as queen of the Round Table, earning everlasting fame (but rather less fortune) for her award-winning short stories and unforgettable poems. Alexander Woollcott, the centerpiece of the group, worked as drama critic for the Times and the World, wrote profiles of his friends for The New Yorker, and lives on today as Sheridan Whiteside in The Man Who Came to Dinner. Explore their favorite salons and saloons, their homes and offices (most still standing), while learning about their colorful careers and private lives. Packed with archival photos, drawings, and other images--including never-before-published material--this illustrated historical guide includes current information on all locations. Use it to retrace the footsteps of the Algonquin Round Table, and you’ll discover that the golden age of Gotham still surrounds us.

Literature of New York

Author	: Sabrina Fuchs-Abrams
Publisher	: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date	: 2020-07-13
ISBN 10	: 9781527556591
Pages	: 199 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (565 users)

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Download or read book Literature of New York written by Sabrina Fuchs-Abrams and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature of New York is the first collection of critical essays to look at historical and contemporary images of New York through an examination of works of literature by New York writers about New York. New York City is a study in contradictions; it offers at once a sense of possibility, cultivation, self-realization and a fear of corruption, decay, and despair. The literature of New York is representative of American national identity and of the unique nature of the metropolitan, urban experience. The essays are arranged chronologically to reflect the changing significance of the city in relation to various movements in American literary and cultural history. It includes essays on the relation of urban public space to various editions of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass; the theme of surveillance in the literature of New York by Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, and Ann Petry; fear of the cultural Other within modern New York in Henry James’ "The Jolly Corner"; use of the setting of New York City to emphasize both the dynamic energy and increasing anxiety of the modern American cityscape in Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer (1925); the satiric portrayal of New York society in the 1920s and 30s in Dorothy Parker's recently collected stories and sketches; the response to post-WWII New York City in fictionalized autobiography in the personal narratives of Audre Lorde and Diane di Prima; the poetics of second generation New York School poet Ted Berrigan in relation to his predecessors; the representation of New York in postmodern fiction, depicting at once a sense of loss at the inability to return to the old neighborhood of the past in Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis and the possibility of reasserting order and meaning amidst the chaos and terror of post-911 New York in Jay McInerney’s The Good Life (2006). Whether expressing nostalgia for the past, hope for the future, fear of the unknown, or the possibility of self-actualization, the literature of New York continues to draw inspiration from its locale and is as complex, contradictory, and creative as the City itself. Contributors include Karen Karbiener, Mark James Noonan, Jonathan Readey, Heidi E. Bollinger, Sabrina Fuchs-Abrams, Kirsten Bartholomew Ortega, Michael Angelo Tata, Jessica Maucione, and Sonia Baelo-Allué.

Elements of Wit

Author	: Benjamin Errett
Publisher	: Penguin
Release Date	: 2014-10-07
ISBN 10	: 9780698153868
Pages	: 256 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (538 users)

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Download or read book Elements of Wit written by Benjamin Errett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Got wit? We’ve all been in that situation where we need to say something clever, but innocuous; smart enough to show some intelligence, without showing off; something funny, but not a joke. What we need in that moment is wit—that sparkling combination of charm, humor, confidence, and most of all, the right words at the right time. Elements of Wit is an engaging book that brings together the greatest wits of our time, and previous ones from Oscar Wilde to Nora Ephron, Winston Churchill to Christopher Hitchens, Mae West to Louis CK, and many in between. With chapters covering the essential ingredients of wit, this primer sheds light on how anyone—introverts, extroverts, wallflowers, and bon vivants—can find the right zinger, quip, parry, or retort…or at least be a little bit more interesting.

And Then They Loved Him

Author	: Michael Jay Tucker
Publisher	: Peter Lang
Release Date	: 2006
ISBN 10	: 0820479101
Pages	: 206 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (1 users)

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Download or read book And Then They Loved Him written by Michael Jay Tucker and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jazz Age America and Europe few stars burned brighter than Seward Collins, who seemingly had it all - money, breeding, good looks, and literary talent. His friends included Fitzgerald, Dreiser, Mencken, and Hemingway, while among his lovers was Dorothy Parker. Yet, in the 1930s, this glittering creature would announce that he was a «Fascist». This book, useful for any study of the American Jazz Age or world Fascism, explores Collins' curious story, and asks if there might be a Fascist tradition in America, as much a part of the nation as Flag Day and apple pie.

Wit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It

Author	: James Geary
Publisher	: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date	: 2018-11-13
ISBN 10	: 9780393254952
Pages	: 128 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (549 users)

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Download or read book Wit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It written by James Geary and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A witty book about wit that steers an elegant path between waggishness and wisdom." —Stephen Fry Much more than a knack for snappy comebacks, wit is the quick, instinctive intelligence that allows us to think, say, or do the right thing at the right time in the right place. In this whimsical book, James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns are the highest form of wit. Geary reasons that wit is both visual and verbal, physical and intellectual: there’s the serendipitous wit of scientists, the crafty wit of inventors, the optical wit of artists, and the metaphysical wit of philosophers. In Wit’s End, Geary embraces wit in every form by adopting a different style for each chapter; he writes the section on verbal repartee as a dramatic dialogue, the neuroscience of wit as a scientific paper, the spirituality of wit as a sermon, and other chapters in jive, rap, and the heroic couplets of Alexander Pope. Wit’s End agilely balances psychology, folktales, visual art, and literary history with lighthearted humor and acute insight, drawing upon traditions of wit from around the world. Entertaining, illuminating, and entirely unique, Wit’s End demonstrates that wit and wisdom are really the same thing.

Great Hollywood Wit

Author	: Gene Shalit
Publisher	: St. Martin's Press
Release Date	: 2003-11-22
ISBN 10	: 9781429980487
Pages	: 192 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (84 users)

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Download or read book Great Hollywood Wit written by Gene Shalit and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2003-11-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Hollywood Wit rollicks with hilarious movie lines and backstage zingers-smart, tart, and (in Sir John Gielgud's case) wicked: "Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can't act in any of them." Julia Roberts, fashion buff: "I only put clothes on so that I'm not naked when I go out shopping." Retiring Burt Reynolds: "You can only hold your stomach in for so many years." Great Hollywood Wit is an unequaled cavalcade of hilarity that you'll laugh through again and again. A wonderful one-of-a-kind gift.

The Algonquin Wits

Author	: Robert E. Drennan
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1975
ISBN 10	: OCLC:20314280
Pages	: 176 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (142 users)

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Download or read book The Algonquin Wits written by Robert E. Drennan and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Groucho Marx

Author	: Lee Siegel
Publisher	: Yale University Press
Release Date	: 2016-01-28
ISBN 10	: 9780300216639
Pages	: 176 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (166 users)

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Download or read book Groucho Marx written by Lee Siegel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team, the Marx Brothers, his broad slapstick portrayals elevated by ingenious wordplay and double entendre. In his spirited biography of this beloved American iconoclast, Lee Siegel views the life of Groucho through the lens of his work on stage, screen, and television. The author uncovers the roots of the performer’s outrageous intellectual acuity and hilarious insolence toward convention and authority in Groucho’s early upbringing and Marx family dynamics. The first critical biography of Groucho Marx to approach his work analytically, this fascinating study draws unique connections between Groucho’s comedy and his life, concentrating primarily on the brothers’ classic films as a means of understanding and appreciating Julius the man. Unlike previous uncritical and mostly reverential biographies, Siegel’s “bio-commentary” makes a distinctive contribution to the field of Groucho studies by attempting to tell the story of his life in terms of his work, and vice versa.

Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age: From the End of World War I to the Great Crash

Author	: James Ciment
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2015-04-08
ISBN 10	: 9781317471653
Pages	: 700 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (716 users)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age: From the End of World War I to the Great Crash written by James Ciment and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated encyclopedia offers in-depth coverage of one of the most fascinating and widely studied periods in American history. Extending from the end of World War I in 1918 to the great Wall Street crash in 1929, the Jazz age was a time of frenetic energy and unprecedented historical developments, ranging from the League of Nations, woman suffrage, Prohibition, the Red Scare, the Ku Klux Klan, the Lindberg flight, and the Scopes trial, to the rise of organized crime, motion pictures, and celebrity culture."Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age" provides information on the politics, economics, society, and culture of the era in rich detail. The entries cover themes, personalities, institutions, ideas, events, trends, and more; and special features such as sidebars and photos help bring the era vividly to life.

A Gendered Collision

Author	: Rhonda S. Pettit
Publisher	: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date	: 2000
ISBN 10	: 083863818X
Pages	: 248 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (8 users)

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Download or read book A Gendered Collision written by Rhonda S. Pettit and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As documented in her poetry and fiction, Parker's modernism moves beyond a narrow set of aesthetic principles; it carries the remnants from a collision of competing values, those of nineteenth-century sentimentalism, and twentieth-century decadence and modernism. Her works display the intense dynamic in which early twentieth-century literature and art were created."--BOOK JACKET.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature

Author	: Jay Parini
Publisher	: Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date	: 2004
ISBN 10	: 9780195156539
Pages	: 2280 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (565 users)

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Download or read book The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature written by Jay Parini and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2004 with total page 2280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alphabetically arranged entries include discussions of individual authors, literary movements, institutions, notable texts, literary developments, themes, ethnic literatures, and "topic" essays.

New York Hotel Experience

Author	: Annabella Fick
Publisher	: transcript Verlag
Release Date	: 2017-03-31
ISBN 10	: 9783839437810
Pages	: 344 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (378 users)

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Download or read book New York Hotel Experience written by Annabella Fick and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than two hundred years hotels have played a significant role in American history. The modern hotel is even an American invention. In five case studies of iconic New York hotels, this book presents the hotel experience of the white upper class, literati, young artists, African Americans and Jewish Americans in the twentieth century. Using a variety of texts, including autobiographies, movies and novels, the impact of hotel experience on society and culture - which has been neglected until now - becomes apparent. This unique approach offers a new way of reading New York and helps to better understand the city's special dynamics.

The New Yale Book of Quotations

Author	: Fred R. Shapiro
Publisher	: Yale University Press
Release Date	: 2021-08-31
ISBN 10	: 9780300205978
Pages	: 1168 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (59 users)

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Download or read book The New Yale Book of Quotations written by Fred R. Shapiro and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised and updated edition of an essential reference book filled with more than twelve thousand famous quotations

Bon Mots, Wisecracks, and Gags

Author	: Robert E. Drennan
Publisher	: Skyhorse
Release Date	: 2012-06-01
ISBN 10	: 9781620874127
Pages	: 176 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (741 users)

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Download or read book Bon Mots, Wisecracks, and Gags written by Robert E. Drennan and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Stop looking at the world through rose-colored bifocals.” “His mind is so open, the wind whistles through it.” “You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.” Ever wonder where these sayings came from? For decades, the dining room of New York’s legendary Algonquin Hotel was a hub of letters and humor. Cocktails were swilled as writers, humorists, actors, and critics poked fun at culture, the arts, and one another. In this lively tribute, today’s readers will come to understand why Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, and Dorothy Parker represent the epitome of quips and comebacks—wit that still packs a punch decades later.

Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance

Author	: Cary D. Wintz
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2012-12-06
ISBN 10	: 9781135455361
Pages	: 1392 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (553 users)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance written by Cary D. Wintz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 1392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the music of Louis Armstrong to the portraits by Beauford Delaney, the writings of Langston Hughes to the debut of the musical Show Boat, the Harlem Renaissance is one of the most significant developments in African-American history in the twentieth century. The Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, in two-volumes and over 635 entries, is the first comprehensive compilation of information on all aspects of this creative, dynamic period. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedi a of Harlem Renaissance website.

The American Essay in the American Century

Author	: Ned Stuckey-French
Publisher	: University of Missouri Press
Release Date	: 2011-05-31
ISBN 10	: 9780826219251
Pages	: 256 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (192 users)

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Download or read book The American Essay in the American Century written by Ned Stuckey-French and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With extensive research and a cultural context, Stuckey-French describes the many reasons essays grew in appeal and importance for Americans. He also explores the rise of E.B. White, considered by many the greatest American essayist of the first half of the twentieth century... This book is one of the first to consider and reflect on the contributions of E.B. White to the personal essay tradition and American culture more generally"--Book jacket.