Christmas at The New Yorker : stories, poems, humor, and art

THE SPIRIT OF GIVING: More Of A Surprise / Sally Benson - Schoolboy / Sally Benson - Christmas Morning / Frank O'Connor - Christmas Is A Sad Season For The Poor / John Cheever - The Magi Hangup / William Cox - Parental Advisory / Daniel Menaker - Christmas Cards / John Updike - and Talk of the Town by Mrs. John Swinton, St. Clair McKelway, Rosann Smith, William Kinkead, Russell Maloney, H. Weiss, Geoffrey Hellman, and John Updike. THE FEAST: A Fine Turkey Dinner / Brendan Gill - Stare Decisis / H. L. Mencken - The Turkey Season / Alice Munro - My Ex-Husband And The Fish Dinner / Joan Acocella - Winter In Martinique / Patrick Chamoiseau - and Talk Of The Town by Jean P. Helm, William B. Powell, and James Thurber. K. KRINGLE, ESQ.: A Visit From Saint Nicholas / James Thurber - Waiting For Santy: A Christmas Playlet / S.J. Perelman - No Santa Claus / Emily Hahn - Skid-Row Santa / Ken Kesey - The Twelve Terrors Of Christmas / John Updike - and Talk Of The Town by William Shawn, Francis Steegmuller; and Harold Ross. FAMILY MATTERS: Christmas Poem / John O'Hara - Christmas / Vladimir Nabokov - Solace / Linda Grace Hoyer - A Christmas Story / Garrison Keillor - Creche / Richard Ford - and Talk Of The Town by Elizabeth Hardwick. HOLIDAY SPIRITS: Comments / E. B. White - Spirit Of Christmas / Sally Benson - Two People He Never Saw / John McNulty - Flesh And The Devil / Peter De Vries - The Carol Sing / John Updike - and Talk Of The Town by Carroll Newman, St. Clair McKelway, Harold Ross, James Thurber, C. E. Noyes, Russell Maloney, J. Soans, Geoffrey Hellman, Preston Shroyer, E. B. White, and S. C. Westerwelt. O TANNENBAUM: Homecoming / William Maxwell - Occurrence On The Six-Seventeen / George Shephard - Tokio Christmas / Max Hill - A Couple Of Nights Before Christmas / J.F. Powers – and Talk of the Town by Russell Maloney, Harold Ross, Charles Noble, Constance Feeley, Robert A. Simon, and E.J. Kahn, Jr. CHRISTMAS CAROLS: Christmas Week / Parke Cummings - Christmas Eve / Karl J. Shapiro - A Christmas Carol / John Ciardi - Christmas Eve / John Ciardi - What Every Woman Knows / Phyllis McGinley - Christmas Family Reunion / Peter De Vries - Landscape Of The Star / Adrienne Rich - The Passing Of Alpheus W. Halliday / E. B. White - All's Noel That Ends Noel / Odgen Nash - Saint Nicholas / Marianne Moore - The Magus / James Dickey - The Christmas Cactus / L. M. Rosenberg - Icicles / Robert Pinsky - Christmas In Qatar / Calvin Trillin - Tree With Ornaments By My Mother / Elizabeth Macklin - 25.XII.I993 / Joseph Brodsky - Nativity Poem / Joseph Brodsky - Flight To Egypt / Joseph Brodsky - Greetings, Friends! (1939) / Frank Sullivan - Greetings, Friends! (1957) / Frank Sullivan - Greetings, Friends! (1978) / Roger Angell - Greetings, Friends! (1995) / Roger Angell.

With drawings by Charles Addams, Constantin Alajalov, Peter Arno, Perry Barlow, Charles Barsotti, Ralph Barton, Meg Crocker Birmingham, Harry Bliss, Harry Brown, Roz Chast, Michael Crawford, Whitney Darrow, Jr., Chon Day, Robert Day, Richard Decker, Eldon Dedini, Leonard Dove, Edna Eicke, Lisa C. Ernst, Ian Falconer, Ed Fisher, Tom Funk, William Crawford Galbraith, Arthur Getz, Edward Gorey, William Hamilton, Helen Hokinson, Rea Irvin, Lonni Sue Johnson, William Joyce, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Ilonka Karasz, Edward Koren, Anatol Kovarsky, Arnie Levin, Lee Lorenz, Roberta Macdonald, Charles E. Martin, Henry Martin, Ever Meulen, Frank Modell, Morris Neuwirth, Alphonse Normandia, George Price, Mischa Richter, Victoria Roberts, Al Ross, Charles Saxon, Andre De Schaub, J. J. Sempé, Judith Shahn, Otto Soglow, Edward Sorel, Art Spiegelman, William Steig, James Stevenson, Richard Taylor, Barney Tobey, Mike Twohy, Benoit Van Innis, Gahan Wilson, and Jack Ziegler.