Mere Anarchy - Woody Allen

I hadn't read any stories by Woody Allen for 27 years the reason being that he hadn't published any in book form, when I saw his latest collection of stories, I bought it at once. After more than a quarter of a century I didn't remember any details of his early stories but I remembered that they had amused me. The book contains 18 stories eight of which have never been in print before, nine were first published in The New Yorker, the others come from other magazines. Four stories begin with a paragraph from a newspaper article on some current zeitgeisty event, the others don't name the source where the author got his inspiration from but they also deal with ...