The insanity defense : the complete prose

Allen, Woody (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780812978117 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0812978110 (pbk.) :
Physical Description: viii, 342 p. ; 21 cm.
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Publisher: New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, c2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"A Random House trade paperback original"--T.p. verso.

Consists of previously published works, including Getting even, Without feathers, Side effects and some essays originally published in The New Yorker.

Formatted Contents Note:

The Metterling lists -- A look at organized crime -- The Schmeed memoirs -- My philosophy -- Yes, but can the steam engine do this? -- Spring bulletin -- Hassidic tales, with a guide to their interpretation by the noted scholar -- The Gossage-Vardebedian papers -- Notes from the overfed -- A twenties memory -- Count Dracula -- A little louder, please -- Conversations with Helmholtz -- Viva Vargas! -- The discovery and use of the fake ink blot -- Mr. Big -- Selections from the Allen notebooks -- Examining psychic phenomena -- A guide to some of the lesser ballets -- The scrolls -- The whore of Mensa -- The early essays -- A brief, yet helpful, guide to civil disobedience -- The Irish genius -- Fabulous tales and mythical beasts -- But soft...real soft -- If the Impressionists had been dentists -- No kaddish for Weinstein -- Fine times : an oral memoir -- Slang origins -- Remembering Needleman -- The condemned -- By destiny denied -- The UFO menace -- My apology -- The Kugelmass episode -- My speech to the graduates -- The diet -- The lunatic's tale -- Reminiscences : places and people -- Nefarious times we live in -- A giant step for mankind -- The shallowest man -- Fabrizio's : criticism and response -- Retribution.