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 ...

Excerpts from Frankie Muniz’s Autobiography That Make Me Think It Was […] I remember the day my mom got the call that I landed the part of Malcom in Malcom in the Middle. She was grinning from ear to ...

Editorial writing is a style that can be hard to explain since it's usually a unique mixture of fact and opinion. Viewing editorial examples is one of the most helpful ways to learn what the style ...

Humor columnist Mark Harmon says the satirist Art Buchwald loved the Watergate scandal, because there was so much bizarre material that he could get his column done in an hour and be on the tennis ...

Garrison Keillor is serving as the final judge this year for the “Montana Prize for Humor” writing contest offered in three categories by Whitefish Review. In 2021, Whitefish Review hosted its first ...

If I drew up a list of the most popular and productive newspaper writers of the last four decades, high on that list would be Dave Barry. He built an international reputation as a humorist, writing ...

Louise Erdrich’s 15th novel, “LaRose,” entwines such weighty themes as war, family, adoption, death, grief, the Indian Child Welfare Act, reservation boarding schools, Indian culture and myth, and ...

Sloane Crosley may be an accomplished writer, but she’s still humble. Crosley is the acclaimed author of essay collections I Was Told There’d Be Cake, How Did You Get This Number, today’s release Look ...

Tracy McArdle Brady has always been good at making people laugh. Her friends say she’s funny. Her blog followers say she’s funny. Fans of her first two novels say she’s funny. Nonetheless, 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 ...