Bred any good rooks lately? : a collection of puns, shaggy dogs, spoonerisms, feghoots & malappropriate stories / gathered by James Charlton ; illustrated by Mary Kornblum.
| Other author | Charlton, James, 1939-2022 |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1986. |
| Description | 117 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | For the birds / Stephen King -- Rook to king / Donald Hall -- Lad is not for burning / John D. MacDonald -- Gospel rap / Roy Blount Jr. -- Day with Sam Goldwyn / William Eastlake -- Lupe has the last word / George Garrett -- Hyacinth and fern / Anne Bernays -- Tuchbreider marriage / Stephen Birmingham -- Just rewards / Elizabeth Tallent -- From the journals of "Woodchuck Charlie" Robinson, wilderness guide & trapper / W.D. Snodgrass -- True valu / Mark Harris -- Anyone for Tennyson / Robert Terrall -- Beautiful princess / Freida Arkin -- Down under / Donald Honig -- No slings, no arrows / Lawrence Block -- On Bendiner's tenderdheartedness / Willard Espy -- Ham shall lie down with the / Richard Schickel -- Colorless story / William Cole -- Is Cape Ann huge at the tip? No, Ann is a mile of land! / George Cuomo -- Rebel belle / Tom Disch -- Through time and space with Ferdinand Feghoot / Grendal Briarton. |
| Contents | Spin around town / Madeleine L'Engle -- Resting comfortably / Max Wilk -- Man who kept Shakespeare in stitches / Bette Greene -- Burnside and the courts / Isaac Asimov -- Feghoot with black bean sauce / Richard Elman -- Production values / Joe Haldeman -- Studied composition / Annie Dillard -- What I'd do for love / David Slavitt -- Poor Richard / Frederik Pohl -- Stiff curriculum / X.J. Kennedy -- Psychobabble / Charles Webb -- Shaggy dog bite / Robert Bloch -- Jonathan Swifty / Brock Brower -- Routine Teuton / Peter Straub -- Secret ingredient of the wee intangible essence burger / Tom Clark -- Fox who loved ice cream / Hannah Green -- Animal rights / Walter Redfern -- Fish story / Robert Cantwell -- Artful decision / William Thompson -- Flowers for pachyderm / Mark Strand -- Baseball groaner / W.P. Kinsella -- Armor, amour / joel oppenheimer -- Conventional approach / James Charlton -- Gustatory notes from all over / Donald E. Westlake. |
| Local note | Autographed by George Garrett at his contribution on page 25. Stuart Wright Book Collection #91.27. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| Acquisitions source | Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2011 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Bred any good rooks lately? 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1986 |
| Genre/form | Spoonerisms. |
| Genre/form | Shaggy dog stories. |
| Genre/form | Puns. |
| Genre/form | Humorous fiction. |
| Genre/form | Puns. |
| Genre/form | Shaggy dog stories. |
| Genre/form | Spoonerisms. |
| Genre/form | Humorous fiction. |
| LCCN | 86004607 |
| ISBN | 0385234775 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780385234771 (pbk.) |