(If that last one doesn’t ring a bell, feel free to Google Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale and Nathaniel Hawthorne.) And, while we’re at it: Letters of introduction; letters of recommendation; and, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The two of us blinked at each other. We had just swapped edits for chapter one of our latest coauthored book, You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our ...

NAIROBI: “What excuse do you have for coming home at six in the morning?” an angry Mrs Benda asks. “Breakfast ...” Bogi replies. If you were born before the computer, then you must know Bogi Benda and ...

Everybody knows that sex sells. Groupon is showing the world that bizarre-but-carefully-inoffensive writing can do the same. The NY Times offers an insider view of editorial offices of daily deal ...

On the evening of April 17, the Wisconsin Book Festival held a public reading at the Madison Public Library. The event featured five distinguished fellows — Adams Adeosun, Jackie Chalghin, Audrey ...

A battle for the wittiest person — and a $10,000 check — will commence at the Lincoln Theatre Friday during the 21st Annual Thurber Prize for American Humor award ceremony. Boasting past winners such ...