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Book Review of The Best of Modern Humor

The Best of Modern Humor
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A treasury of humorous short stories and excerpts, including work by H.L. Mencken, Damon Runyon, P.G. Wodehouse, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, Groucho Marx, James Thurber, E. B. White, Evelyn Waugh, S. J. Perelman, Eudora Welty, John Cheever, Saul Bellow, Kingsley Amis, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Joseph Heller, Jean Kerr, Truman Capote, Terry Southern, Art Buchwald, Kenneth Tynan, Tom Wolfe, Philip Roth, Woody Allen, Dan Greenburg, Marshall Brickman, Nora Ephron, Garrison Keillor, Fran Leibowitz, and many more.