Getting Even

1972, post-1974 Warner edition
Woody Allen
Getting Even
Original price $1.75, purchase price $1.50
Very worn paperback with stains and water damage
B

A humor collection, mostly reprinted from The New Yorker, this holds up pretty well, with its blend of intellectualism and silliness.  My favorites are "Spring Bulletin," with imaginary but almost plausible adult education courses; "Hassidic Tales," with dubious lessons; and "A Twenties Memory," where Fitzgerald based a protagonist on the rememberer, while some of their friends thought he based his life on Fitzgerald's protagonist, "and I finally wound up getting sued by a fictional character."  Oddly enough, Allen's story of the invention of the sandwich uses the real birth and death years of the Earl, although the rest is pure whimsy.  And, no, I don't know what the title means.

The books advertised in the back include Without Feathers, which is why this edition couldn't have come out before 1975.