Recognized as a classic during his lifetime, Woody Allen makes a film a year, or even two, and regularly performs with an orchestra, playing early 20th century jazz on the clarinet. However, Allen considers writing stories to be his true passion. “If I suddenly couldn’t make a movie,” he says himself, “I wouldn’t be too upset, but I wouldn’t last a week without a desk.” Perhaps no one in America has written so funny since Mark Twain, so tenderly since Hemingway, so boldly since the Declaration of Independence.