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Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink: Unabridged Selections, Hörbuch, Digital, 384min
Since its earliest days, The New Yorker has been a tastemaker: literally. As the home of A. J. Liebling, Joseph Wechsberg, and M. F. K. Fisher, who practically invented American food writing, the magazine established a tradition that is carried forward today by irrepressible literary gastronomes, including Calvin Trillin, Bill Buford, Adam Gopnik, Jane Kramer, and Anthony Bourdain. Now, in this indispensable collection, The New Yorker dishes up a feast of delicious writing on food and drink. Whether you're in the mood for snacking on humor pieces or for savoring classic profiles of great chefs and great eaters, these offerings, from every age of The New Yorker's fabled 80-year history, are sure to satisfy every taste. There are memoirs, short stories, tell-alls, and poems: ranging in tone from sweet to sour and in subject from soup to nuts. Selected from the magazine's plentiful larder, Secret Ingredients celebrates all forms of gustatory delight. Language: English. Narrator: uncredited. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001287/bk_rand_001287_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Load of Hooey: A Collection of New Short Humor Fiction, Odenkirk Memorial Library, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 147min
Bob Odenkirk is a legend in the comedy-writing world, winning Emmys and acclaim for his work on Saturday Night Live, Mr. Show with Bob and David, and many other seminal television shows. This book, his first, is a spleen-bruisingly funny omnibus that ranges from absurdist monologues ("Martin Luther King Jr.'s Worst Speech Ever") to intentionally bad theater ("Hitler Dinner Party: A Play"), from avant-garde fiction ("Obit for the Creator of Mad Libs") to free-verse poetry that's funnier and more powerful than the work of Calvin Trillin, Jewel, and Robert Louis Stevenson combined. Odenkirk's debut resembles nothing so much as a hilariousnew sketch comedy show that's exclusively available as a streaming video for your mind. As Odenkirk himself writes in "The Second Meeting of Jesus and Lazarus," it is a book "to be read aloud to yourself in the voice of Bob Newhart". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Jay Johnston, Jerry Minor, Megan Amram, Paul F. Tompkins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/006976/bk_blak_006976_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Tepper Isn't Going Out , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 323min
Murray Tepper would say that he is an ordinary New Yorker who is simply trying to read the newspaper in peace. But he reads while sitting behind the wheel of his parked car, and his car always seems to be in a particularly desirable parking spot. Not surprisingly, he is regularly interrupted by drivers who want to know if he is going out. Tepper isn't going out. Why not? His explanations tend to be rather literal: the indisputable fact, for instance, that he has 20 minutes left on the meter. Tepper's behavior sometimes irritates the people who want his spot. ("Is that where you live? Is that car rent-controlled?") It also irritates the mayor - Frank Ducavelli, known in tabloid headlines as Il Duce - who sees Murray Tepper as a harbinger of what His Honor always calls "the forces of disorder." But once New Yorkers become aware of Tepper, some of them begin to suspect that he knows something they don't know. And an ever-increasing number of them are willing to line up for the opportunity to sit in his car with him and find out. Tepper Isn't Going Out is a wise and witty story of an ordinary man who, perhaps innocently, changes the world around him. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Calvin Trillin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhau/000067/bk_rhau_000067_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Fierce Pajamas: Selected Humor Writing from The New Yorker, Hörbuch, Digital, 361min
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 irreverent heart to the founder's description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists of the modern era - among them Groucho Marx, James Thurber, S.J. Perelman, Mike Nichols, Woody Allen, Calvin Trillin, Steve Martin, and Dorothy Parker. This audio gathers together, for the first time, the funniest work of more than 30 New Yorker contributors. Pieces offer perspectives on the heights of fame, the depths of social embarrassment, and the ups and downs of love and sex. Such well-loved sketches as Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" take their place alongside light-hearted essays on food, film, and flights of fancy that follow an apparently simple premise to the point of no return, and sometimes well beyond. Here you will find large insights (Woody Allen: "Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage."), and a great deal of healthy advice, including Steve Martin's on memory and middle age: "Bored? Here's a way the over-50 set can easily kill a good half-hour: 1. Place your car keys in your right hand. 2. With your left hand, call a friend and confirm a lunch or dinner date. 3. Hang up the phone. 4. Now look for your car keys." This rich selection of humorous verse includes caustic gems by Dorothy Parker, the effortless whimsy of Phyllis McGinley, and Ogden Nash's unforgettable slapstick prosody. Performed by Byron Jennings, Julie Halston, Michael Goz, Patrick Frederic, Chris Gannon, and Faith Prince. Language: English. Narrator: Byron Jennings, Julie Halston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000169/bk_rand_000169_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker, Hörbuch, Digital, 590min
One of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorker magazine has met this challenge more often and more successfully than any other modern American journal. Starting with its light fantastic evocations of the glamorous and the idiosyncratic in the '20s and continuing to the present, with complex pictures of such contemporaries as Marlon Brando and Richard Pryor, The New Yorker's Profiles have presented readers with a vast and brilliant portrait gallery of our day and age. These literary-journalistic investigations into character and accomplishment, motive and madness, beauty and ugliness, are unrivaled in their range, variety of style, and embrace of humanity. When they were first published, these biographies brought insight, amusement, understanding, and often, joy or sorrow to those who read them. Gathered here, in Life Stories, they provide an album of our era, a rich and diverse appraisal of some of the most prominent members of an entire century's cast. A Pryor Love (Richard Pryor), by Hilton Als A Duke in His Domain (Marlon Brando), by Truman Capote Isadora (Isadora Duncan), by Janet Flanner Lady with a Pencil (Katharine White), by Nancy Franklin Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody (Heloise), by Ian Frazier The Coolhunt (Baysie Wightman and DeeDee Gordon), by Michael Gladwell Wunderkind (Floyd Patterson), by A.J. Liebling Mr. Hunter's Grave (George H. Hunter), by Joseph Mitchell Show Dog (Biff Truesdale), by Susan Orlean How Do You Like it Now, Gentlemen? (Ernest Hemingway), by Lillian Ross The Man Who Walks on Air (Philippe Petit), by Calvin Tomkins Covering the Cops (Edna Buchanan), by Calvin Trillin Language: English. Narrator: Philip Bosco, Amy Irving, Alton Fitzgerald White. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000440/bk_rand_000440_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin
Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin - Forty Years of Funny Stuff: ab 5.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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