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...Yorker cartoons without pictures? Indeed, nearly all the stories first appeared in that magazine. At times Barthelme even dabbles in the first-person plural as if he were spoofing the "We" of The Talk of the Town. Only once does he break tone and give a hint of the robust tall-tale telling of his native Texas. He describes his grandfather, who, with good looks and a bottle of Teamster's Early Grave, convinced a conservation-minded wood nymph to transform herself "into one million board feet of one-by-ten of the very poorest quality neatly stacked...
...make the finals and I lost my chance," he said. "The injury was nothing serious." Briggs defeated players from Philadelphia and New York, winning six of nine matches. Niederhoffer advanced to the finals after Brigg's default and lost the Championship to New Yorker Frank Satherwaithe...
...into anecdotes, however, and most of the familiar stories are here, lumpy with paraphrase but still amusing. We are reminded of Thurber's feats as a rewrite man for the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune, his 20 successive rejections when he began submitting stories to The New Yorker, and all those cartoons on the walls of Costello's Bar. Harold Ross, The New Yorker editor, reappears in his role as the most woodenheaded genius in modern literature (Thurber made him funny in The Years with Ross, but he did not make him believable, a lapse that Biographer...
...clothing lines of such imaginately named firms as COOP de la Cambridge and Skirt d'Issue, or Maurice de MassAve and Beachnut Buygum. The Cosmo parody does contain one fine cartoon carrying a cut line running "If you had said something funnier, this cartoon might have made the New Yorker." It might be the slogan for the issue...
This week The New Yorker is publishing the 12,000-word scenario written by Bergman for his latest movie, Whisperings and Cries, which will be released in the U.S. in a month or so. "It reads like a long piece of fiction," says Editor William Shawn. "It has all his different kinds of images, understanding of people, psychology, and seriousness." The scenario began as a picture in the director's head-"four women with white dresses in a red room"-and over a year or so it slowly developed into a convoluted story of three sisters and their servant...