The Art of Literary Humor on Word for Word

If you are well-read, well-educated, and have an IQ well above 130, then you will enjoy The Art of Literary Humor on Word for Word, “Author and former staff writer for ‘The New Yorker’ magazine, Ian Frazier, has made a career of honing in on those details that others might easily overlook. Some of his work is memoir, but much of it is actually reporting — starting with a kernel of reality but just about always including a sense of the absurd. Ian Frazier’s latest collection of essays is titled “Gone to New York.” He discusses the craft of writing and the art of humor in a May, 2006 performance at St. Paul’s Fitzgerald Theatre.” Brilliance. In fact, each vignette is funnier than the last.

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