• Humor

    Excerpts

    Aisha Tyler on Possibly the Worst Night of Her Comedy Life

    By Aisha Tyler  July 12, 2018
    Feature

    My Life is Like a Movie… Starring Librarians!

    By Kristen Arnett  June 6, 2018
    Feature

    How to Run Storytime Without Boring Everyone to Death

    By Kristen Arnett  May 16, 2018
    Essay

    For Libraries, the “Customer is Always Right” Might Be Wrong

    By Kristen Arnett  May 2, 2018
    Feature

    Essential DIY Tips for Surviving Slashed Library Budgets

    By Kristen Arnett  April 18, 2018
    Feature

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

    By Kristen Arnett  April 4, 2018
    Feature

    What Exactly Does a Librarian Do? Everything.

    By Kristen Arnett  March 21, 2018
    Essay

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

    By Eileen Pollack  January 4, 2018
    History

    Fake News and the Rise of Fascism in the 1920s

    By Philip Ó Ceallaigh  September 14, 2017
    Personal Essay

    South Park and the Dark Comedy of Our Deepest Fears

    By Kayla Rae Whitaker  January 31, 2017
    Politics

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

    By Alan Glynn  January 20, 2017
    Essay

    How Donald Trump is Killing Comedy

    By Zack Stovall  October 20, 2016
    Excerpts

    I’ll Sell You A Dog

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 11, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Field of the Cloth of Gold

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  August 18, 2016
    Feature

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

    By Jade Sharma  August 4, 2016
    Conversations

    How the Writer Uses Humor: Aleksandar Hemon

    By John Freeman  July 28, 2016
    Feature

    5 Reasons Why Moby-Dick Just Won’t Die

    By Mark Beauregard  June 23, 2016
    Essay

    What Makes Something Funny?

    By Stuart Evers  February 12, 2016
    News and Culture

    Anthony Marra Interviews @Guy-In-Your-MFA, Genius Ensues

    By Literary Hub  October 22, 2015
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