The Comedy of Short Fiction
The author of I’ll Give You a Reason contemplates the common ground between a joke and a short story.
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Ten Questions for Dorothy Chan
“I consider notetaking to be an integral form of the writing process.” —Dorothy Chan, author of Return of the Chinese Femme
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Ten Questions for Mia Mercado
“Stop Googling the ages of people you think are more successful than you.” —Mia Mercado, author of She’s Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good
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Ten Questions for Beth Morgan
“Engaging with art doesn’t have to be about understanding something or getting the right answer.” —Beth Morgan, author of A Touch of Jen
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Craft Capsule: Technically It’s a Ravioli
The author of With Teeth celebrates absurdist humor.
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Ten Questions for E. C. Osondu
“It was all fun and games until I realized that I was actually writing a book.” —E. C. Osondu, author of Alien Stories
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Craft Capsule: On Copycats and Reply Guys
The author of With Teeth writes about the pleasure of riffing off a good joke.
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Craft Capsule: Self-Deprecating Humor
The author of With Teeth writes that her affinity for self-deprecating humor is inextricable from her queerness.
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Craft Capsule: What’s So Funny?
The author of With Teeth examines how a single joke can be successfully repackaged and retold over time.
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Ten Questions for Justin Jannise
“There’s something sort of final and fulfilling about discovering, say, that a poem’s floor is also its ceiling.” —Justin Jannise, author of How to be Better by Being Worse
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