Woody Allen Books In Order

Collections

  1. Getting Even (1971)
  2. Without Feathers (1975)
  3. Side Effects (1980)
  4. The Complete Prose of Woody Allen (1991)
  5. The Insanity Defense (2007)
  6. Mere Anarchy (2007)

Plays

  1. Don’t Drink the Water (1967)
  2. Play It Again, Sam (1969)
  3. Death (1975)
  4. The Floating Light Bulb (1982)
  5. Four Films (1982)
  6. Hannah and Her Sisters (1987)
  7. Three Films of Woody Allen (1990)
  8. Annie Hall (2000)
  9. Three One-Act Plays (2004)
  10. Writer’s Block (2005)
  11. Death Defying Acts (2010)

Non fiction

  1. Woody Allen: Interviews (2016)
  2. Apropos of Nothing (2020)

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Woody Allen Books Overview

Getting Even

The classic, with 316,000 copies sold to date.

Without Feathers

Here they are some of the funniest tales and ruminations ever put into print, by one of the great comic minds of our time. From THE WHORE OF MENSA, to GOD A Play, to NO KADDISH FOR WEINSTEIN, old and new Woody Allen fans will laugh themselves hysterical over these sparkling gems.

Side Effects

A humor classic by one of the funniest writers today, Side Effects is a treat for all those who know his work and those just discovering how gifted he is. Included here are such classics as REMEMBERING NEEDLEMAN, THE KUGELMASS EPISODE, a new sory called CONFESSIONS OF A BUGLAR, and more.

The Insanity Defense

Comprising the classic bestsellers Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Side Effects, this definitive collection of comic writings is from a man who needs no Introduction. Really this book has no Introduction. The Insanity Defense reveals many sides of Woody Allen as he holds forth on the most human of urges Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only for food: frequently there must be a beverage ; reflects on death I don t believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear ; and notes the effect on history wrought by trick chewing gum, the dribble glass, and other novelties. There is also an inspiring story of the futile race to beat Dr. Heimlich to the punch: The food went down the wrong pipe, and choking occurred. Grasping the mouse firmly by the tail, I snapped it like a small whip, and the morsel of cheese came loose. If we can transfer the procedure to humans, we may have something. Too early to tell. All Woody Allen fans will cherish this uproarious treasury and those who don t enjoy The Insanity Defense are just plain crazy. If you don t care if you break into helpless whoops of laughter on buses, trains, or wherever you happen to be reading it. Chicago Tribune, on Without Feathers Brilliant flights of fancy whose comic detail and inspired silliness are at once dramatic and controlled. The New York Times, on Side Effects

Mere Anarchy

Here, in his first collection since his three hilarious classics Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Side Effects, Woody Allen has managed to write a book that not only answers the most profound questions of human existence but is also the perfect size to place under any short table leg to prevent wobbling. In hysterical flights of inspirational sanity we are introduced to a cast of characters only Allen could imagine: Jasper Nutmeat, Flanders Mealworm, and the independent film mogul E. Coli Biggs, just to name a few. Whether he is writing about art, sex, food, or crime, he is explosively funny. In This Nib for Hire, a Hollywood bigwig comes across an author’s book in a little country store and describes it in a way that aptly captures this magnificent volume: Actually, the producer says, I d never seen a book remaindered in the kindling section before. Praise for Mere Anarchy:INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The stories in Mere Anarchy deliver the same joys and foibles that have been with its author from the start. Janet Maslin, The New York Times Uproarious…
In each story the ornate and the vulgate slam together and make it rain polysyllabic absurdity. The Wall Street Journal Nostalgically enjoyable…
The stories in Mere Anarchy deliver the same joys and foibles that have been with its author from the start. The New York Times Brilliant neurotica…
unfailingly entertaining…
an obsessive and seriously funny book. Los Angeles Times Book Review Like the Carnegie s one pound sandwiches, Allen s literary slapstick is…
comedy on wry. USA Today

Don’t Drink the Water

Farce / 12m, 4f / Int. A cascade of comedy and a solid hit on Broadway, this affair takes place inside an American embassy behind the Iron Curtain. An American tourist, a caterer by trade, and his wife and daughter rush into the embassy two steps ahead of the police who suspect them of spying and picture taking. It’s not much of a refuge, for the ambassador is absent and his son, now in charge, has been expelled from a dozen countries and the continent of Africa. Nevertheless, they carefully and frantically plot their escape, and the ambassador’s son and the caterer’s daughter even have time to fall in love. ‘Moved the audience to great laughter…
. Allen’s imagination is daffy, his sense of the ridiculous is keen and gags snap, crackle and pop.’ N.Y. Daily News ‘It is filled with…
bright and hilarious dialogue.’ N.Y. Post.

Play It Again, Sam

Comedy Characters: 3 male, 8 femaleInterior Set Allan Felix has this thing about Humphrey Bogart. If only he had some of Bogart’s technique…
Bookish and insecure with women, Allan’s hero, Bogey comes to the rescue, with a fantastic bevy of beauties played out in hilarious fantasy sequences. Fixed up by friends with gorgeous women, he’s so awkward that even Bogey’s patience is tried. Allan mostly resembles a disheveled, friendly dog and this is what ultimately charms his best friend’s wife, Linda into bed. It’s a tough life, making it in the world of beautiful people but if you can’t be a hero it helps to have one…
‘Hilarious…
a cheerful romp. Not only are Mr. Allen’s jokes and their follow ups, asides and twists audaciously brilliant, but he has a great sense of character.’ The New York Times ‘A funny, likeable comedy that has a surprising amount of wistful appeal.’ New York Post

The Floating Light Bulb

The Floating Lightbulb is Woody Allen’s bittersweet comedy set in 1945 Brooklyn. As Enid and Max Pollack grapple with each other and their unfulfilled dreams, their stuttering teenage son Paul retreats from his fear of people into a world of magical illusions.

Four Films

Complete screenplays of four of Woody Allen’s most famous films. Hilariously funny, with all actions included. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Three Films of Woody Allen

Originally published by Random House in 1987, this collection of three of Allen’s comedy screenplays includes ‘Zelig’, ‘Broadway Danny Rose’ and ‘The Purple Rose of Cairo’, for which he won an Oscar for best screenplay.

Annie Hall

One of a hand picked selection of some of the most popular and cult worthy titles on Faber and Faber’s extensive list of film scripts.

Three One-Act Plays

Three delightful one act plays set in and around New York, in which sophisticated characters confound one another in ways only Woody Allen could imagineWoody Allen’s first dramatic writing published in years, Riverside Drive, Old Saybrook, and Central Park West are humorous, insightful, and unusually readable plays about infidelity. The characters, archetypal New Yorkers all, start out talking innocently enough, but soon the most unexpected things arise and the reader enjoys every minute of it though not all the characters do. These plays successfully produced on the New York stage and in regional theaters on the East Coast dramatize Allen s continuing preoccupation with people who rationalize their actions, hide what they re doing, and inevitably slip into sexual deception all of it revealed in Allen s quintessentially pell mell dialogue.

Death Defying Acts

Short Plays / Comedy / 2m, 3f / 3 ints. This long-running Off Broadway hit features the work of three gifted playwrights. David Mamet’s AN INTERVIEW is an oblique, mystifying interrogation. A sleazy lawyer is forced to answer difficult questions and to admit the truth about his life and career. The why and where of the interrogation provide a surprise ending to this brilliant twenty minute comedy. In HOTLINE by Elaine May, a neurotic woman with enough urban angst to fill a neighborhood calls a suicide crisis hotline late one night. The counselor who gets the call is overwhelmed – it is his first night on the job. This dark and desperate, wildly funny forty minute piece ends Act 1. A well to do psychiatrist has just discovered that her best friend is having an affair with her husband in Woody Allen’s wildly comic second act, CENTRAL PARK WEST. She has invited the friend over for a confrontation after getting thoroughly soused. Meanwhile, the husband is about to run off with a college student. CENTRAL PARK WEST provides an hour of constant hilarity. ‘A wealth of laughter.’-N.Y. Newsday ‘Lighter than air, an elegant diversion.’-N.Y. Times

Woody Allen: Interviews

Woody Allen b. 1935 is one of America’s most idiosyncratic filmmakers, with an unparalleled output of nearly one film every year for over three decades. His movies are filled with rapid fire one liners, neurotic characters, anguished relationships, and old time jazz music. Allen’s vision of New York whether in comedies or dramas has shaped our perception of the city more than any other modern filmmaker. ‘On the screen,’ John Lahr wrote in the New Yorker in 1996, ‘Allen is a loser who makes much of his inadequacy; off screen, he has created over the years the most wide ranging oeuvre in American entertainment.’ Woody Allen: Interviews collects over twenty five years of interviews with the director of Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Bullets Over Broadway, and Annie Hall, for which he won an Oscar. The book’s interviews reveal a serious director, often at odds with his onscreen persona as a lovable, slap stick loser. Allen talks frankly about his rigorous work habits; his biggest artistic influences; the attention he devotes to acting, screenwriting, and directing; and how New York fuels his filmmaking. Along with discussing film techniques and styles, Allen opens up about his love of jazz, his Jewish heritage, and the scandal that arose when he left his longtime partner Mia Farrow for her adopted daughter. Including four interviews from European sources, three of which are now available in English for the first time, Woody Allen: Interviews is a treasure trove of conversations with one of America’s most distinctive filmmakers. Robert E. Kapsis is professor of sociology at Queens College and is the author of Hitchcock: The Making of a Reputation. His work has appeared in the Village Voice, Variety, Journal of Popular Film and Video, and Cineaste and at the Museum of Modern Art. Kathie Coblentz is special collections cataloger at the New York Public Library. Kapsis and Coblentz coedited Clint Eastwood: Interviews University Press of Mississippi.

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