Peter De Vries

The writer is padding through East Side mid-Manhattan when he runs into his friend, Artie Pringle, who is standing on a day-long line in the rain waiting …

When the writer moved to Westport he looked forward to rambles about the countryside. He started to take a walk along a back road and several people in …

The writer practices repartee with his wife before a party but she feeds him the wrong lines and his wit fails. For the next gathering he tells her what …

The writer tells about how he was caught in an office building elevator for two hours, as he was coming back from lunch. He describes the other occupants …