The Satanic Nurses: And Other Literary Parodies
by J.B. Miller
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In J.B. Miller's alternative literary universe, Virginia Woolf has a crush on William Powell, Norman Mailer provides "The Rules" for dating, Bridget Jones writes "The Diary of Anais Nin," and J.D. Salinger sends letters to young starlets inviting them to audition for the movie of "Franny." Dave Eggers gives us "A Backbreaking Work of Incredible Thinness," Philip Roth gets into a fight with Nathan Zuckerman, E. Annie Proulx is guilty of "Vocabulary Crimes," and we read the missing transcript show more of Jonathan Franzen on the Oprah Winfrey Show. We visit Frank McCourt's disturbing childhood in "Angela's Eyelashes," we learn from David Mamet "How It Is To Write," and go "Trainspitting" with Irvine Welsh. Toni Morrison gets "Belabored," P.G. Wodehouse admits that "She's a Right Ho, Jeeves," Mary McCarthy foils Lillian Hellman's attempted assassination of Hitler, David Foster Wallace proves an "Infinite Pest," notes are found for J.R.R. Tolkein's abandoned opus, "The Lord of the Strings," and polar explorer Ernest Shackleton gets lost on the London bus system. These are just some of the forty-four witty and outrageously funny pieces that comprise The Satanic Nurses, a satiric anthology of counterfeit lit. show lessTags
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some fun short parodies of famous works. I particularly enjoyed Anais Nin's Diary as written by Bridget Jones, and Vladimir and Estragon in Waiting for Frodo. Nothing fabulous, but some fun ideas.
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- First words
- Shortly before he joined the Central European Bowling League, Vladimir Nabokov called me up at my Woodstock hideaway. It was difficult to hear "Vlad" (as everyone called him) because I had Lillian Hellman* and Mary McCarthy d... (show all)uking it out in the kitchen.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)99. Clapton is God
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PN6231 .P3 .M55 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Wit and humor
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- English
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