Woody Allen, the founder of the genre of intellectual comedy and one of the iconic characters of modern cinema, already in his youth gained wide fame thanks to his humorous plays and sketches. Here's what he said about the beginning of his writing career: “I was kicked out of school quite early. I was writing for The New Yorker at the time. I was very flattered that they were publishing me, because The New Yorker is perhaps the best literary magazine in the United States, all my friends dreamed of being published there. And this magazine published the first thing I sent them. In the mid-sixties, the New Yorker regularly published my stories, and I regularly wrote new ones, and with great pleasure. of which three collections were compiled: 'Settling Scores', 'Side Effects' and 'Without Feathers'." "Settling Scores" (1971) is one of Woody Allen's first collections, which mainly included his essays previously published in The New Yorker magazine , as well as some other works. Basically, these are all kinds of parodies, where not just the creative style of this or that author or a separate work is ridiculed, but entire genres - memoirs, detective stories, analytical articles, esoteric anthologies, television plays.