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Woody Allen

Woody Allen has published four collections of short pieces and plays including Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Side Effects. He has written and directed over forty films.

Fiction

Summer 1980

Retribution

By Woody Allen

That Connie Chasen returned my fatal attraction toward her at first sight was a miracle unparalleled in the history of Central Park West. Tall, blond, high cheekboned, an actress, a […]

Fiction

Winter 1980

The Shallowest Man

By Woody Allen

Sitting around the delicatessen, discussing shallow people we had known, Koppelman brought up the name of Lenny Mendel. Koppelman said Mendel was positively the shallowest human he’d ever come across, […]

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The Shallowest Man

By Woody Allen

From The Kenyon Review, New Series, Winter 1980, Vol. II, No. 1 Sitting around the delicatessen, discussing shallow people we had known, Koppelman brought up the name of Lenny Mendel. […]