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Edited by David Remnick & Henry Finder - Performed by Byron Jennings, Julie Halston, Michael Goz, Patrick Frederic, Chris Gannon & Faith Prince - Unabridged Selections - Fiction - 5 COMPACT DISCS - 6 hours

Publisher, Bantam Doubleday Dell (November 2001)

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A cornucopia of literary humor from the magazine that has defined the category for almost a century.

"A complete delight from beginning to end." —The New York Times

"Classic humor writing from a fantasy slumber party of writers." —Vanity Fair

"Quite simply among the greatest stuff like this ever written . . . There is comic brilliance in these pages. . . . [Fierce Pajamas] is more than worth your time, your money and the potential damage to your funny bone." —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"The New Yorker’s fine anthology of humor writing can inspire us to collectively bemoan the scarcity of a certain kind of printed comedy: the subtle and sophisticated type." —Newsday

When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he described it as a "comic weekly." And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its heart to the founder's description, publishing virtually every accomplished practitioner of literary laughter of the modern era: James Thurber, S.J. Perelman, George W.S. Trow, Veronica Geng, Ian Frazier, Garrison Keillor, Woody Allen, Steve Martin, Susan Orlean, Calvin Trillin, Marshall Brickman, Frank Sullivan and Wendy Wasserstein. This collection will gather together, for the first time, many of these great writers' greatest work. It will include not only the straight parodies and spoofs for which The New Yorker has become the talk of many towns, it will also contain humorous full-blown short stories, hilarious landmark reviews, and reporting as funny as it is informative. A wonderful gift for others, or a delightful present for oneself, Fierce Pajamas will present the best examples of literary laughter in all its variations from a publication that for decades has defined America's meatiest and most sophisticated sense of humor.

About the Editors: David Remnick is the editor of The New Yorker. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for Lenin's Tomb and is also the author of Resurrection and the King of the World : Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero. He lives in New York City with his wife and three children.

Henry Finder is the editorial director of The New Yorker.