“I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me.”–Woody Allen 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 the perfect size to place under any short table leg to prevent wobbling. “I awoke Friday, and because the universe is expanding it took me longer than usual to find my robe,” he explains in a piece on physics called “Strung Out.” In other 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 (“Pugh has been a policeman as far back as he can remember. His father was a notorious bank robber, and the only way Pugh could get to spend time with him was to apprehend him”) 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.”

The Complete Prose of Woody Allen is a collection of fifty-two pieces of hilarious writing which firmly establish the author in the tradition of Groucho Marx and James Thurber. Woody Allen's prose displays his versatility and virtuosity with the written word, and his special brand of humour. "If Allen had lived in Augustan England scholars would now be considering him alongside Dryden, Pope and Swift ... No five hundred page book ever contained a laugh a line, but his one gets pretty close." --- Daily Telegraph "Touched by genius, Allen's talent is for feasting on the fantasies of his favourite writers. Nature, he says, is one vast restaurant. The same could be said of his most appetising art." --- Glasgow Herald "Unless you agree that Woody Allen is one of the world's funniest writers, it is difficult to explain why you should exert every effort necessary to get hold of this book. All right, who's funnier?" --- Irish Times "The Complete Prose is an ideal bedside companion, to be dipped into for quick hits of enjoyment." --- Will Self, London Review of Books

In discussions that begin in 1971 and end in 2009, Allen talks about every facet of moviemaking through the prism of his own work as well as the larger world of film, and in so doing reveals an artist’s development over the course of his career. He speaks about his influences and about the genesis of his ideas; about writing, casting, acting, shooting, directing, editing, and scoring—and throughout shows himself to be thoughtful, honest, self-deprecating, always witty, and often hilarious.

《伍迪·艾伦与哲学:你说我的谬论一无是处》内容简介：被高傲的法国人誉为“美国电影界唯一的知识分子”的伍迪·艾伦，这次被15位知识分子-美国哲学领域的一群专家学者借“身”（伍迪电影）还“魂”（哲学要义）借伍迪·艾伦的作品来讲授与人生有关的哲学问题。 尽管伍迪·艾伦对专业哲学家冷嘲热讽，尽管他拒绝系统地讨论哲学立场。尽管他缺乏与根植于欧溯或美国的任何一种哲学类型的联系，但是哲学家们把他视为当代的一位伟大哲学人物，因为他的电影里充满了最重要的哲学命题和观念，以幽默的手法有效地将基本哲学问题放进成千上万入的脑袋中，没有一位哲学家能做到像他那样。所以，他们一起用哲学的方式研究和评价伍迪·艾伦的电影，同时娱乐性地探究这个叫做“伍迪·艾伦”的哲学宝藏，为读者送生这部“不需要主修哲学便可获得对哲学和伍迪·艾伦作品内容的深层次理解”的文集《伍迪·艾伦与哲学>。正如《伍迪·艾伦与哲学:你说我的谬论一无是处》前言所说，书中“这些文章有的让你发笑，但每一篇都会让你思考。我相信当你掩卷时，会为伍迪·艾伦鼓掌，他是悟性非凡的艺术家和思想者。当然，他肯定太忙了，无暇留意你们的或我的掌声，但他当之无愧。”

本書描述伍迪‧艾倫如何從一個害羞的布魯克林少年成為頂尖的脫口秀 藝人,並進而成為集編導演於一身的電影大師. 伍迪‧艾倫的作品一向自傳性甚濃,他技巧地將他的猶太人情結及日常生 活中笨拙的舉止,以及對於生與死,愛與罪,性與慾,道德與責任等無可遏止又傷 害性不大的思想偏執等做為創作元素,創作出多部知識分子開懷大笑的脫線諷 刺劇,開創愛情輕喜劇新格局及嚴肅心理劇. 讀者從此書可以了解他的生平與創作之間的關係,一窺他受柏格曼,費里尼 ,杜斯妥也夫斯基,托爾斯泰等大師影響的軌跡,並從中認識伍迪這個人與紐約 這個城市之間千絲萬縷的關係.