• Humor

    craft advice

    Being Funny Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Be a Serious Writer

    By Gina Sorell  April 6, 2022
    The Writing Life

    How To Live, Eat, and Drink Like Your Favorite Writers

    By Literary Hub  March 28, 2022
    Language

    Learning to Love the Accents of New York (And My Own)

    By Coco Mellors  March 25, 2022
    Sex

    The Under-Celebrated Erotic Power of… Hamantaschen

    By Felicia Berliner  March 16, 2022
    Cartoons

    The More Personal the Joke, the Bigger the Laugh (and More Lessons from a Career in Cartoons)

    By David Sipress  March 11, 2022
    The Hub

    “We’re stuck being described as ‘exploding infants.’” Watch PJ O’Rourke on Baby Boomers.

    By Jonny Diamond  February 18, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Maeve Higgins on How to Write with Humor

    By Maeve Higgins  January 28, 2022
    Drinking

    Kingsley Amis’s Instructions for Coping with Hangovers, Both Physical and Metaphysical

    By Kingsley Amis  January 18, 2022
    What to Watch

    Lights, Camera… Corn: 15 Quintessentially Midwestern Movies to Watch After Fargo

    By Charlie Berens  November 19, 2021
    The Hub

    10 new definitions of autofiction.

    By Walker Caplan  October 21, 2021
    Memory

    How Do You Find a Book When You Can’t Remember the Title or the Author?

    By Marina Luz  October 21, 2021
    Teaching Through a Pandemic

    The Last-Resort Move That Made My Students Smile

    By Frances Starn  October 20, 2021
    Drinking

    A Scotsman: Why I Love Getting Drunk on Cocktails in America

    By Daniel Sloss  October 13, 2021
    Relationships

    The Myth of True Love Hurts Us All—Especially Women

    By Jen Winston  October 8, 2021
    Marriage

    How to Be Married, in 16 Simple and Completely F*cking Unrealistic Steps

    By Kimberly Harrington  October 7, 2021
    Advice

    The Theory of (Artistic) Relativity, Illustrated

    By Michelle Rial  October 1, 2021
    Rejection

    How to Deal with Rejection (and Get Revenge) Like Edgar Allan Poe

    By Catherine Baab-Muguira  September 30, 2021
    The Hub

    Read Kay Ryan’s hilarious, lacerating first-person reporting on AWP.

    By Walker Caplan  September 21, 2021
    The Hub

    Ten campus novels as op-eds about the dangers of wokeness.

    By Jessie Gaynor  August 31, 2021
    The Hub

    Breaking news: Men still don’t know how to write women.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  August 24, 2021
    The Hub

    12 new opinions on Lolita that no one’s invented yet.

    By Walker Caplan  August 18, 2021
    Literary History

    On the Lost “Lenny Bruce of Athens”

    By Mark Haskell Smith  August 18, 2021
    Language

    On the Art of Literary Name-Calling: The Best and Most Baroque Insults Are Micro-Poems for the Ages

    By Jason Guriel  August 13, 2021
    Comedy

    Why Is Jerry Seinfeld One of the Most Successful Stand-Up Comedians of All Time?

    By David Steinberg  July 14, 2021
    Humor

    To Write a Comic Novel, I Had to Shed the Weight of Expectation (and Adopt a New Name)

    By Tahmima Anam  July 13, 2021
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