THE LITERARY LIFE AND THE HELL WITH IT— Whit Burnett—Harper ($2.50). One of the few Americans who is an editor, a humorist and a man with a beard is Whit Burnett, co-editor (with his wife, Martha ...
Throughout the day, New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff jots down ideas that strike him as funny: A door lies on a couch in a psychiatrist's office, and the psychiatrist says, "You're not crazy, you ...