The Fiddler in the Subway

by Weingarten, Gene

• ISBN13: 9781439181591
• ISBN10: 1439181594
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-06
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

Simply the best storyteller around, Weingarten describes the world as you think it is before revealing how it actually is-in narratives that are by turns hilarious, heartwarming, and provocative, but always memorable.

Author Biography

gene weingarten is a nationally syndicated humor columnist and writer for The Washington Post. He is the only two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. With his son, Dan Weingarten, and cartoonist David Clark he is the author of Barney & Clyde, a daily newspaper comic strip launched in June 2010. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xi
The Great Zucchini	p. 1
The First Father	p. 31
The Ghost of the Hardy Boys	p. 50
Roger and Me	p. 66
The Armpit of America	p. 69
My Father's Vision, Part I	p. 94
Snowbound	p. 99
A Wing and a Prayer	p. 129
Tears for Audrey	p. 132
If You Go Chasing Rabbits...	p. 155
Fear Itself	p. 173
Yankee Doodle Danny	p. 202
Pardon My French...	p. 206
Doonesbury's War	p. 231
You Go, Girl	p. 260
None of the Above	p. 265
Fatal Distraction	p. 291
An Honorable Affair	p. 321
My Father's Vision, Part II	p. 334
The Fiddler in the Subway	p. 337
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