Download or read book At Random written by Bennett Cerf and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I’ve got the name for our publishing operation. We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random. Let’s call it Random House.” So recounts Bennett Cerf in this wonderfully amusing memoir of the making of a great publishing house. An incomparable raconteur, possessed of an irrepressible wit and an abiding love of books and authors, Cerf brilliantly evokes the heady days of Random House’s first decades. Part of the vanguard of young New York publishers who revolutionized the book business in the 1920s and ’30s, Cerf helped usher in publishing’s golden age. Cerf was a true personality, whose other pursuits (columnist, anthologist, author, lecturer, radio host, collector of jokes and anecdotes, perennial judge of the Miss America pageant, and panelist on What’s My Line?) helped shape his reputation as a man of boundless energy and enthusiasm and brought unprecedented attention to his company and to his authors. At once a rare behind-the-scenes account of book publishing and a fascinating portrait of four decades’ worth of legendary authors, from James Joyce and William Faulkner to Ralph Ellison and Eudora Welty, At Random is a feast for bibliophiles and anyone who’s ever wondered what goes on inside a publishing house.

Download or read book Bennett Cerf s Treasury of Atrocious Puns written by Bennett Cerf and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of all of the puns Mr. Cerf has hoarded over the years. Some were written for the Saturday Review, This Week, King Features, Reader's Digest, and Playboy. Some have never appeared in print before.

Download or read book More Riddles written by Bennett Cerf and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dear Donald Dear Bennett written by Bennett Cerf and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Klopfer and Bennett Cerf had been partners in Random House for seventeen years, but Donald decided that he had to become a part of an even greater endeavor—the defeat of Nazi Germany. Not long after Pearl Harbor, Donald, who was then forty years old, took a leave from Random House and joined the United States Army Air Forces. He served for two and a half years, finally becoming an intelligence major in a B-24 group in England. Donald and Bennett wrote to each other regularly all during that period. Bennett sent Donald long newsy letters about the book business—authors, sales, publishing gossip—as well as about what was happening in New York. Donald reacted in his wise, serene way to Bennett’s letters, and conveyed news of what was going on in the war, though sometimes censorship took its toll. This is nostalgia with substance, and because these letters were never intended to be read by anyone else, they reveal, in a convincing and wonderful way, just how special these two men were and how that specialness was reflected in the company they founded.

Download or read book Good for a Laugh written by Bennett Cerf and published by New York : Bantam Books. This book was released on 1954 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection the author's funny quips and stories.

Download or read book Bennett Cerf s Pop Up Limericks written by Bennett Cerf and published by . This book was released on 1967-09-01 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Try and Stop Me written by Bennett Cerf and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Famous Ghost Stories written by Bennett Cerf and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poison Penmanship written by Jessica Mitford and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessica Mitford was a member of one of England’s most legendary families (among her sisters were the novelist Nancy Mitford and the current Duchess of Devonshire) and one of the great muckraking journalists of modern times. Leaving England for America, she pursued a career as an investigative reporter and unrepentant gadfly, publicizing not only the misdeeds of, most famously, the funeral business (The American Way of Death, a bestseller) and the prison business (Kind and Usual Punishment), but also of writing schools and weight-loss programs. Mitford’s diligence, unfailing skepticism, and acid pen made her one of the great chroniclers of the mischief people get up to in the pursuit of profit and the name of good. Poison Penmanship collects seventeen of Mitford’s finest pieces—about everything from crummy spas to network-TV censorship—and fills them out with the story of how she got the scoop and, no less fascinating, how the story developed after publication. The book is a delight to read: few journalists have ever been as funny as Mitford, or as gifted at getting around in those dark, cobwebbed corners where modern America fashions its shiny promises. It’s also an unequaled and necessary manual of the fine art of investigative reporting.

Download or read book Riddles and More Riddles written by Bennett Cerf and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of riddles, such as "When is a cook bad? When she beats an egg." and "What kind of coat should be put on when it is wet? A coat of paint."

Download or read book Bennett Cerf s Book of Laughs written by Bennett Cerf and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marvin's days are filled with many humorous situations.

Download or read book Stories to Make You Feel Better written by Bennett Cerf and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1973 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sixteen Famous American Plays written by B. A. CERF and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1049 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Just for Fun a Collection of Bennett Cerf s Best Stories written by Bennett Cerf and published by . This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shake Well Before Using written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Riddle Book written by Roy McKie and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of more than thirty animal riddles and knock knock jokes.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Modern American Humor written by Bennett Cerf and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: