Anything Can Happen

A look at the human comedy from a prize-winning writer who is “bright, funny and tells it like it is” ( St. Louis Post-Dispatch ).   In this insightful collection, an accomplished essayist and humorist offers a class in “Tyranny for Beginners;” warns about the snares of dinner parties; explains the mind-set of barbarians; suggests the perfect gift for Mother—a wildebeest—and tells what happens when his dog’s barking drives him to thoughts of murder.   Roger Rosenblatt forces us to laug