Special Report: Fiction [May/July 1990] ed. Keith Bellows (Whittle Communications, $3.50, 70pp+, 10.5″ x 14″, cover: [photo] by Philip Saltonstall) []
Humor issue. Details supplied by Todd Mason.
- · Editor-in-Chief · William S. Rukeyser · el
- · Managing Editor · Elise Nakhnikian · el
- 2 · Letters · The Readers · lc
- _ · [letter] · Ramsey Campbell · lt; complimenting the fantastica issue, August-October 1989/“Other Dimensions”, which reprinted his story “Little Man”.
- _ · [letter] · Donna D. Vitucci · lt
- _ · [letter] · Pamela Kennedy · lt
- _ · [letter] · Lillian J. Taylor · lt
- _ · [letter] · Andrea Cirillo · lt
- _ · [letter] · Ann Shields · lt
- _ · [letter] · Lottie T. Caldwell · lt
- _ · [letter] · Sarah Aronson · lt
- 5 · In This Issue: What’s So Funny? · The Editors · ed; illustrated by Joey Waldon
- 7 · Salvation Sunday · Liz Newall · ss; illustrated by Laura Levine
- 12 · Liz Newall · [uncredited] · bi; illustrated by Brian Dressler
- 14 · About Men · Jay Neugeboren · vi; illustrated by Dudley Reed
- 16 · Jay Neugeboren · [uncredited] · bi; illustrated by Chris Wade
- 19 · The Poet Lariat · Roy Blount, Jr. · pm; illustrated by Edward Sorel; humorous poems about Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Donne, William Blake, Walt Whitman, Jonathan Swift, Stephen King & William Faulkner.
- 23 · Second Thoughts · Elizabeth Berg · ss; illustrated by Cary Bartholomew
- 31 · Elizabeth Berg · [uncredited] · bi; illustrated by John Goodman
- 33 · 3 Faces of Fiction (Humor, Mysteries, Romance) · Walter Gurbo · ct
- 34 · Because It Was There · Harvey Jacobs · ss; illustrated by John Craig
- 40 · Harvey Jacobs · [uncredited] · bi; illustrated by Patrick Harbron
- 43 · Pequod II · Frank Gannon · hu; illustrated by Robert de Michiell
- 46 · Hotline! · William Price Fox · ss; illustrated by Karen Kuehn
- 55 · William Price Fox · [uncredited] · bi; illustrated by Brian Dressler
- 57 · Punch Lines · Various · ms
- 57 · Bred Men Don’t Wear Checks · P. G. Wodehouse · ex from The World of Jeeves, Harper’s Magazine 1967; illustrated by Tom Bachtell
- 57 · Easy Come, Easy Go · Elmore Leonard · ex from Labrava, Arbor House, 1983
- 57 · Dinner’s in the Freezer · Calvin Trillin · ex from “Barnett Frummer Learns to Distinguish Packaged Paprika from the Real Article”, The New Yorker March 31 1967; illustrated by Tim Lewis
- 57 · Remedies That Stink · Mark Twain · ex from “Curing a Cold”, The Golden Era September 20 1863; illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker
- 58 · Till Flirting Do Us Part · “Groucho” Marx · ex from The Groucho Letters, Simon & Schuster, 1967; illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker
- 58 · Shall We Dance? · Dorothy Parker · ex from “The Waltz”, The New Yorker September 2 1933
- 58 · Lonely at the Top · Gracie Allen · ex from How to Become President, Duell, Sloane, Pearce, 1940
- 58 · Children We’re Stuck With · Fran Lebowitz · ex from Metropolitan Life, Dutton, 1978; illustrated by Tim Lewis
- 58 · The Trick to Toy Assembly · S. J. Perelman · ex from “Insert Flap A and Throw Away”, The New Yorker February 5 1944; illustrated by Tom Bachtell
- 60 · The Long Fly Ball · Bill Bickel · ss; illustrated by Steve Carver
- 65 · Bill Bickel · [uncredited] · bi; illustrated by Joyce Ravid
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