Woody Allen's Without Feathers (1975) is one of his best-known literary pieces. The book spent 4 months on the New York Times Bestseller List. The book is a collection of short stories and also features two one act plays, Death (play) and God (play). The name is essentially a play on Emily Dickinson's words "Hope is the thing with feathers", reflecting Woody Allen's neurotic sense of hopelessness. The Dickinson poem is mentioned in one of the stories in the collection. 1. Selections from The Allen Notebooks 2. Examining Psychic Phenomena 3. A Guide to Some of the Lesser Ballets 4. The Scrolls 5. Lovborg's Women Considered 6. The Whore of Mensa 7. The Early Essays 8. A Brief Yet Helpful Guide to Civil Disobedience 9. Match Wits With Inspector Ford 10. The Irish Genius 11. Fabulous Tales and Mythical Beasts 12. But Soft. Real Soft. 13. If the Impressionists Had Been Dentists 14. No Kaddish for Weinstein 15. Fine Times: An Oral Memoir 16. Slang Origins
