Writing captures the breadth of human emotion, so it’s curious that we don’t often find humor taking the center stage in our literary worlds. At Wednesday’s Stegner Fellow reading, two writers ...
Here’s a rather nonintuitive writing tip I learned early in my career: When there’s tragedy, drama or big emotions in a story, pull the writing back. Do less. Let the story carry the weight of what’s ...
Alfred University Professor of English Juliana Gray’s satirical piece “Escape Room Challenge: Your European Airbnb” was published recently in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, a leading online literary ...
Long car drives are good for sweeping out the sticky cobwebs. Lottsa time to think. On my way back from the writing conference I recently attended in Dayton, I had 375 highway miles to review the ...
Novelist, television writer and producer Larry Doyle talks about his new book, “Deliriously Happy and Other Bad Thoughts,” at the Brookline Booksmith on Wednesday. GRACE DONNELLY/DFP STAFF Former “The ...
Viv Sade, global humor winner in the 2026 Erma Bombeck Writing Competition, is a retired journalist and freelance writer from Churubusco, Indiana. She began writing humor at the age of 12, and while ...
On a special episode (first released on May 25, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Nationally-syndicated humor columnist Dave Barry's memoir chronicles his life mostly spent joking around. Hit play on the ...
With comedy, timing can often be everything—but it isn’t the only thing that makes a joke land. Slapstick, camp, and satire all have their place in the comedic landscape and require different skills ...
The winner of the 2026 Thurber Prize for American Humor Award will be announced May 7 at a fundraising celebration.
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