Hunters in the snow / Tobias Wolff. No contact, asshole / Jonathan Ames -- How I got kicked out of high school / Judd Apatow -- Love is not a pie / Amy Bloom --- Elephant / Raymond Carver - Ocean Avenue / Michael Chabon -- I demand to know where you're taking me / Dan Chaon -- Selected drawings / Hugleikur Dagsson -- All the time in the world / Andre Dubus -- Your mother and I / Dave Eggers -- What I wish I'd known / Nora Ephron -- Picture of Elvis and Nixon is worth 1,000 words / Faye Fiore -- And now a word from the booth / Paul Feig -- Pat Hobby and Orson Welles / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Two ponies / Jonathan Franzen -- Coyote v. Acme / Ian Frazier-- My first day in Hell / Jack Handey -- Killers / Ernest Hemingway -- Selected poems / Tony Hoagland -- Majesty / Miranda July -- Goat boy rises / John Lahr -- More selected drawings / Hugleikur Dagsson -- In the birdcage / Steve Martin -- Jockey / Carson McCullers -- Public opinion / Adam McKay & Tom Gianas -- Four calling birds, three French hens / Lorrie Moore -- Material / Alice Munro -- Good country people / Flannery O'Connor -- Six selected pieces / Simon Rich -- Conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth -- Vivian / Rodney Rothman -- Canteen boy and the scoutmaster / Adam Sandler and others -- Go Carolina / David Sedaris -- For immediate release / Paul Simms -- Lookwell (TV pilot) / Robert Smigel & Conan O'Brien -- More selected poems / Tony Hoagland -- Lenny Bruce: the making of a sitcom / Jon Stewart -- Hunters in the snow / Tobias Wolff.
Summary:
Apatow shares a collection of "writing from all disciplines-- short stories, poetry, essays, humor writing, journalism, memoir, cartoons, sketches, and even television pilots." Most were selected for their humor, but the author admits to selecting a few because they were so personally meaningful to him.
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