'I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me.' Thus begins 'Strung Out', Woody Allen's hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. "Mere Anarchy", Woody Allen's first new collection in over 25 years, features eighteen witty, wild and intelligent comic pieces - eight of which have never been in print before. Surreal, absurd, rich in verbal play, bitingly satirical and just plan daft in the mode we have grown to love from his finest films, this flight-of-fancy collection includes tales of a body double who, mistaken for the film's star, is kidnapped by outlaws; a pretentious novelist forced to work on the novelisation of a Three Stooges film; a nanny secretly writing an expose of her Manhattan employers; crooks selling bespoke prayers on eBay; and how to react when you're asked to finance a Broadway play about the invention and manufacture of the adjustable showerhead.

伍迪·艾倫（Woody Allen，1935- ），

美國著名電影導演、編劇、演員、音樂傢、作傢和戲劇傢。

一九三五年在紐約齣生。自一九六五年以來，平均每年至少推齣一部電影，多為自編自導和自演的喜劇作品。他的創作靈感，多來自文學、哲學、心理學和電影曆史，還有他的猶太人身份。他的電影獲奬無數，其中包括四項奧斯卡奬、九項英國電影和電視藝術學院奬，以及兩項金球奬。

伍迪·艾倫是《紐約客》雜誌獨樹一幟的撰稿人，齣版文集《扯平》、《不長羽毛》、《副作用》和《亂象叢生》，及戲劇集《中央公園西路》等。