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How to Run Storytime Without Boring Everyone to Death

How to Run Storytime Without Boring Everyone to Death

(Or Suffering a Nervous Breakdown)

By Kristen Arnett | May 16, 2018

For Libraries, the

For Libraries, the "Customer is Always Right" Might Be Wrong

Kristen Arnett: Hard Lessons Learned from the Front Desk

By Kristen Arnett | May 2, 2018

Essential DIY Tips for Surviving Slashed Library Budgets

Essential DIY Tips for Surviving Slashed Library Budgets

Kristen Arnett Finds (Figurative) Gems in the Trash

By Kristen Arnett | April 18, 2018

Are You Pregnant? Can I Have Some Creamer? And Other Questions I Get at the Library

Are You Pregnant? Can I Have Some Creamer? And Other Questions I Get at the Library

Kristen Arnett is Back with More Tales from the Library

By Kristen Arnett | April 4, 2018

What Exactly Does a Librarian Do? Everything.

What Exactly Does a Librarian Do? Everything.

Introducing a New Column by Kristen Arnett

By Kristen Arnett | March 21, 2018

Want to Hear a Dirty Joke? Get a Woman to Tell It

Want to Hear a Dirty Joke? Get a Woman to Tell It

Eileen Pollack on the Courage and Comic Genius of
Groundbreaking Female Stand-Ups

By Eileen Pollack | January 4, 2018

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Fake News and the Rise of Fascism in the 1920s

By Philip Ó Ceallaigh | September 14, 2017

South Park and the Dark Comedy of Our Deepest Fears

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Donald Trump: All of the Worst Fictional Presidents Rolled into One

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How Donald Trump is Killing Comedy

How Donald Trump is Killing Comedy

When the Physical Manifestation of Bloviating Hyperbole and Self-Satire Takes Over TV

By Zack Stovall | October 20, 2016

I'll Sell You A Dog

I'll Sell You A Dog

Juan Pablo Villalobos, trans. Rosalind Harvey

By Lit Hub Excerpts | October 11, 2016

The Field of the Cloth of Gold

The Field of the Cloth of Gold

Magnus Mills

By Lit Hub Excerpts | August 18, 2016

The Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day I Woke Up As a Debut Author

The Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day I Woke Up As a Debut Author

Jade Sharma Tries to Be Happy About the Publication of Problems

By Jade Sharma | August 4, 2016

How the Writer Uses Humor: Aleksandar Hemon

How the Writer Uses Humor: Aleksandar Hemon

The Two Founding Members of Future Band "Freemon" In Conversation in Sarajevo

By John Freeman | July 28, 2016

5 Reasons Why <em>Moby-Dick</em> Just Won't Die

5 Reasons Why Moby-Dick Just Won't Die

From Memes to Trump, the Great White Whale is Having a Moment

By Mark Beauregard | June 23, 2016

What Makes Something Funny?

What Makes Something Funny?

Stuart Evers on Why Jokes Make the Best Weapons

By Stuart Evers | February 12, 2016

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