Camille Bordas’s Latest Novel Follows Comedians on the Hunt for Material
A novelist questions the price artists pay when mining personal life for inspiration
Episode 22: Antonin Scalia, Samantha Bee, and the Grammys
It’s a Big Club, and You Ain’t in It: George Carlin as Social and Political Theorist
Common Decency: Kurt Vonnegut as Moralist
A Conversation with Edward Koren
“We deal with it by talking about it”
The Sandor Ferenczi Center at the New School recently had the pleasure of having longtime New Yorker cartoonist Edward Koren discuss his craft as part of its Arts in Mind series. The title of the event, “We deal with it by talking about it,” was derived ...
Amusing Ourselves to Life
I am in mourning and in withdrawal. I am losing my two nightly sanity fixes, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart. I’m left with my morning fixes: running, swimming and cycling. Sleeping will become more of a problem. I published this piece a number of years ago in <a href="http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/" target="_blank" ...
Why Comedy Matters
When moral or political decisions are at stake, we often make use of catch-phrases drawn from a repertoire of available drama and literature. For we understand that both our actions and how they are perceived depend on how we frame them. Comedy, of all genres, appears to be the one ...