• Humor

    Literary Scams

    We Have Always Been Plagued by Literary Scammers

    By Nick Ripatrazone  August 13, 2019
    Grammar

    38 Americanisms the British Can’t Bloody Stand

    By Gyles Brandreth  August 12, 2019
    On Poetry

    My Life as Poet Laureate (of a Law Firm)

    By Elizabeth Bales Frank  July 23, 2019
    Bad Writing Advice

    20 Ways to Be a Great Literary Citizen, According to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

    By Adam Ehrlich Sachs  May 23, 2019
    Book Tours

    Ann Beattie: What to Eat When Your Book Tour Comes to an End

    By Ann Beattie  May 22, 2019
    Parenting

    How to Raise a Strapping, Manly Little Boy (Victorian Edition)

    By Therese Oneill  April 16, 2019
    Tragicomedy

    Simpler Times: Janet Malcolm at Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally to Restore Sanity

    By Janet Malcolm  February 21, 2019
    Feature

    Elizabeth McCracken: Toward a Unified Theory of the Doughnut

    By Elizabeth McCracken  February 5, 2019
    Excerpts

    Making Dad Jokes is, in Fact, a Neurological Condition

    By James Geary  December 18, 2018
    Essay

    In Which I, Nathan Englander, Offer Myself Up for Space Force

    By Nathan Englander  August 15, 2018
    Advice

    What If You Win a Comedy Award But Don’t Think You’re Funny?

    By Julie Schumacher  August 14, 2018
    Essay

    How Librarians Survive on the Frontlines of Fake News

    By Kristen Arnett  July 18, 2018
    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
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