Wry Harvest: An Anthology of Midwest Humor

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 ofhumor, you might want to consider living somewhere else. Humor is as natural to theMidwest as cow pats and corn mazes, seed caps and road kill, Johnny Carson and DavidLetterman.

This book gathers some of the best stories from th

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 ofhumor, you might want to consider living somewhere else. Humor is as natural to theMidwest as cow pats and corn mazes, seed caps and road kill, Johnny Carson and DavidLetterman.

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

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