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"Zero Gravity," Woody Allen's new collection of short stories, brings together nineteen previously unpublished narratives written with hilarious prose, skeptic-proof humor, and an inimitable ability to mix popular culture with his usual pedantry. With the city of New York as the scene of his entanglements, whether he writes about horses that paint, cars that think, the sexual life of celebrities, the inconveniences of attending an orgy with your partner or the injustice of being reincarnated as a lobster, humor Woody Allen's film is always original and offbeat, popular and sophisticated at the same time, politically incorrect, keenly observant and, most importantly, relentlessly funny. With this new volume of stories, in which it is never clear whether he is making fun of himself or rather of all humanity, Woody Allen confirms himself as the last great humorist in the tradition started by Groucho Marx, S. J. Perelman and Lenny Bruce . In the brief prologue that introduces the book, the writer and journalist Daphne Merkin reviews Woody Allen's narrative career and the keys to his effective sense of humor.