Research Catalog

Title

Creme de la femme : a collection of the best contemporary women writers, lyricists, playwrights and cartoonists / concept developed by Anne Safran Dalin ; edited by Nancy Davis.

Publication

New York : Random House, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dalin, Anne Safran.
• Davis, Nancy, 1947-

Description

370 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

A collection of essays, short stories, poetry, songs, and cartoons from popular American writers, actresses, authors, and activities. Includes contributions from Terry McMillan, Cathy Guisewite, Kathy Najimy, Anna Quindlen, Molly Ivins, Jane Wagner, Wendy Wasserstein, and many more.

Subjects

• Humor
• Women > Humor
• American wit and humor > Women authors

Genre/Form

Humor

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• You / Georgia Bogardus Holof -- Smart Woman, Foolish Voices / Anne Gibbons -- Welcome to Kindergarten, Mrs. Johnson / Marta Kauffman -- Time-to-Spare Book Club / Roz Chast -- Here a Streep. There a Streep. Everywhere a Streep, Streep / Mariette Hartley -- She Was Amazing / Mary Lawton -- Let's Party / Merrill Markoe -- Living Legends / Yvette Jean Silver -- Let Me Call You Sweetheart / Kathleen Rockwell Lawrence -- Battle Lines / Jan Eliot -- On Censorship / Janice Perry -- A Blank Canvas / Bulbul -- Typical Japanese Women / Cathy N. Davidson -- Out-of-Focus / Martha Gradisher -- Typical Japanese Woman / Cathy N. Davidson -- Don't I Know You / Karen Rizzo -- Water: A Monologue / Diane Rodriguez -- Polite-itis / Libby Reid -- Psychic Economics / Mary Kay Blakely -- Business Traveler / Cathy Guisewite -- Striking Out in the British Empire / Joan Rivers -- Broad Comedy / Jenny Bicks -- Position Available / Linda Eisenberg -- If I Produced the Oscars / Paula Poundstone --^
• Noah and the Ark / Martha Campbell -- Ida Mae Cole Takes a Stance / Lynn Nottage -- Where I'm Coming From / Barbara Brandon -- Pisser / Lissa Levin -- The History of Wild Women / Libby Reid -- Accelerando / Lisa Loomer -- New World Order / Signe Wilkinson -- PTA / Signe Wilkinson -- Dear Kenny Rogers / Kathy Najimy -- Good Relationships / Jennifer Berman -- Ode to a Love as Strong as an Emery Board / Carrie St. Michel -- Talking Want Ad / Janet Smith -- Cafe Society / Jan Eliot -- My Sort Of Ex-Boyfriend / Carol Hall -- Happy Hour / Terry McMillan -- Alex Phones / Cathy Guisewite -- The Race / Yeardley Smith -- Oops / Flash Rosenberg -- Among Other Thoughts on Our Wedding Anniversary / Judith Viorst -- On Being Married / Paige Braddock -- Bears with Furniture / Anna Quindlen -- It Ain't Over / Carol Hall -- Playing by the Numbers / Liebe Lamstein -- Letter to the Editor / June Siegel -- A Woman Who Eats / Anne Gibbons -- Kill Me, I'm Yours / Perry Howze --^
• Gilda, the Fairy Godmother / Wendy Wasserstein -- TV Talk Show / Sally Fingerett -- Rosebud / Jane Read Martin -- Sixteen Pictures of My Father / Marion Winik -- It's in the Male / Margo Kaufman -- Bathing Beauty / Sherrie Shepherd -- If Men Could Menstruate / Gloria Steinem -- The 28-Inch Waist / Sherrie Shepherd -- Why We Can't Stay Married / Marcia Steil -- Laundry / Gail Machlis -- Disneyland / Katherine Hewett -- Hare Transplant / Theresa McCracken -- The Silent Partner / Margo Kaufman -- An Open Book / Liza Donnelly -- Berflegump / Flash Rosenberg -- The End / Cindy Chupak -- Sister City / Jan Eliot -- Henry / June Siegel -- Men-o-Pause / Yvette Jean Silver -- You Say Dumbo and I Say Rambo / Judith Stone -- Dick Films / Jan Eliot -- Samuel Espada / Luisa Leschin -- Closet Commuter / Nurit Karlin -- Benefit Performance / Ruby Dee -- Road Signs / Jennifer Berman -- Better from Behind / Michele Brourman and Robin Brourman Munson -- They Just Don't Get It / Jane Wagner --^
• Agnus Angst from the Pay Phone at IHOP / Jane Wagner -- Mothers and Daughters / Mary Lawton -- Some Thoughts on Being Pregnant / Anne Lamott -- Days of Gilded Rigatoni / Anna Quindlen -- Pre-School Yuppies / Wendy Wasserstein -- Nanny Tyrannica / Sybil Adelman -- Nanny Dearest / Anne Gibbons -- I Am the Green Lollipop / Delia Ephron -- How to Talk to Your Stepmother / Delia Ephron -- Free Range Children / Yvette Jean Silver -- Hedge(Hog)ing Our Bets / Dale Burg -- Billie's Parents / Brenda Burbank -- Notes from My Life / Phyllis Newman -- Fire and Bad Clothes / Denny Dillon -- Babes in Toyland / Anna Quindlen -- Ask Mom / Gail Machlis -- Taxes, Freedom and Gefilte Fish / Ellen Orleans -- Mommy Dearest / Wendy Wasserstein -- Make Me a Grandmother / Erma Bombeck -- Babysitting / Cathy Guisewite -- Exit Laughing / Patricia Volk -- Family Therapy World / Libby Reid -- Something's Happening Here / Cathy Crimmins -- True Story / Mindy Schneider -- Butter / Megon McDonough --^
• Can We Tock? / Judith Stone -- For Better or For Worse: Egg Cups / Lynn Johnston -- The Swimming Suit / Amanda McBroom -- Dieter's Prayer / Amanda McBroom -- A Perfect Model Keeps Her Full Mouth Shut / Carrie St. Michel -- Spiro Agnew and I / Cathleen Schine -- Goldilocks and the Three Bowls / Liebe Lamstein -- What Was I Thinking? / Christine Lavin -- Juanita Craiga / Lisa Loomer -- PMS / Paige Braddock -- Sometimes More is More / Michele Brourman -- The Coast is Not Clear / Judith Stone -- Southwest / Mary Lawton -- Rural Delivery / Binnie Kirshenbaum -- Ambitious Trip / Cathy Guisewite -- The Montana Nine / Christine Lavin -- Two Guys Moving / Catherine Siracusa -- Excuse Me for Inviting You to the Plantation / Nancy Lemann -- Paradise Lost / Gail Machlis -- Will I Ever See a Picasso Again? / Maryln Schwartz -- Ten Things in Little Rock You Won't Find in New York City / Maryln Schwartz -- Good Morning Fort Worth! Glad to Be Here / Molly Ivins --^
• Obscenity in the Suburbs / Flash Rosenberg -- 85 Things Every Young Woman Should Know / Lesley Dormen -- My Own Personal Olympics / Jennifer Berman -- Non-Bridaled Passion / Kate Schein -- Decidophobia / Hester Mundis -- Life 102 / Merrill Markoe -- Hair Tomorrow / Martha Gehman -- Trudy the Bag Lady / Jane Wagner -- Oprah / Martha Gradisher -- TV / Cheryl Wheeler -- Why I Hate Spring and Everything Else / Patricia Marx -- Pizza Man / Theresa McCracken -- Mood Swings / Jane Wagner -- The Story of Z / Elizabeth Rapoport -- Daylight Savings Time / Theresa McCracken -- Sleep / Debi Smith -- Over My Dead Wet Body / Patricia Marx -- Maharishi Mahesh Hester / Heather McAdams -- Who's Calling? / Debi Smith -- Phone Conversations / Phyllis Diller -- Ask Madame Lazonga / Trina Robbins -- Just Say "Purl" / Ellen Byron -- Remote Control / Flash Rosenberg -- Ambition, and Other Terrible Secrets / Robin Swicord -- Oh Darling / Lynda Barry -- Chain Letters / Cheryl Wheeler --^
• Dear Edith / Jane Wagner -- Six Pretty Good Things to Do with 90 Percent of Your Brain / Laura-Kuritzky Pedegana -- Natural Phenomena of 15E / Roz Chast -- In the "Family" Way / Ellen Orleans -- Meet Your Family / Flash Rosenberg -- Caroline's Cremation / June Siegel -- Scam / Taffy Field -- Dishwater Rhyme / Sherrie Shepherd -- Three Dreams: South Bronx / Susan Montez -- Things I Just Don't Understand / Heather McAdams -- Looking Back and Commenting on Stuff / Kate Shein.

ISBN

0375700560

LCCN

^^^97025306^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library