Wry Harvest

An Anthology of Midwest Humor

By: Chris Lamb (Editor)

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Hardcover | 24 August 2006

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If you live in the Midwest, you have to know how to laugh. Tornados, floods, drought, and miles and miles of flat land: if you don't have a sense of humor, you might want to consider living somewhere else. Humor is as natural to the Midwest as cow pats and corn mazes, seed caps and road kill, Johnny Carson and David Letterman.

This book gathers some of the best stories from the humorists of the big belly of America, past and present. Here are Mark Twain, George Ade, Finley Peter Dunne, Don Marquis, and Ring Lardner; James Thurber, Ruth McKenney, Erma Bombeck, Calvin Trillin, and Garrison Keillor -- Midwesterners, one and all. There's even a piece from William Dean Howells, not usually known for his knock-me-down humor. You'll also find tales from Ambrose Bierce, Kin Hubbard, Sinclair Lewis, Mike Royko, Donald Kaul, P. J. O'Rourke, and Bill Bryson.

Here is a book to curl up with when the cows don't come home, the crick's flooded, and the fox has bedded down in the henhouse. It'll put a smile on your face and make you glad you don't live in New York City, even if you do.

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How to tell a story	p. 23
The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County	p. 29
The story of the good little boy	p. 36
The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm	p. 41
Christmas every day	p. 50
Curried cow	p. 59
An imperfect conflagration	p. 67
The wonderful meal of vittles	p. 72
The patient toiler who got it in the usual place	p. 74
The fable of how the fool-killer backed out of a contract	p. 76
The fable of the copper and the jovial undergrads	p. 78
Everybody's friend and the line bucker	p. 80
On war preparations	p. 86
On his cousin George	p. 89
On reform candidates	p. 92
The people	p. 98
Gossip	p. 100
The amy purviance murder case	p. 102
Introducing the old soak	p. 106
Look out for crime waves!	p. 109
The barroom and the arts	p. 111
Alibi Ike	p. 117
Haircut	p. 139
George F. Babbitt begins his day	p. 154
The night the bed fell	p. 166
University days	p. 171
A loud sneer for our feathered friends	p. 180
Don't worry ... I'll manage	p. 188
The garage sale	p. 194
The ides of May	p. 199
"Mom and Dad! I'm home"	p. 206
A pitch for opening day	p. 212
View from the Hoosierdome	p. 216
Indiana's not alone	p. 220
House calls and other folk medicine	p. 226
Eat your heart out, Luther Burbank	p. 229
Alice, let's eat	p. 234
Missouri uncompromised	p. 242
Pinko problems	p. 245
Home	p. 251
Intellectual wilderness, Ho - a visit to Harvard's 350th anniversary celebration	p. 276
Des Moines	p. 289
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