A Newsletter of Humorous Writing #1
A Newsletter of Humorous Writing
A Newsletter of Humorous Writing
For September 21-27, 2017, a roundup of the week's
finest prose humor and prose humor-related news.
Hello and welcome to the very first Newsletter of Humorous Writing, the email propaganda arm of the acclaimed humor reading show, An Evening of Humorous Readings. We hope to use this space to highlight writers and writing we enjoy, and share news about ourselves and friends of the show.
What We Enjoyed This Week
Allow Me to Take the Opportunity Afforded to Me by This Cover Letter to Explain the Four Year Gap in My Employment When I Was Stuck in a Corn Maze by Christian Alsis (McSweeney's Internet Tendency)
I Haven’t Had Sex In So Long A Tumbleweed Rolled Out of My Vagina and An Old Man Stepped Out and Said, ‘Storm’s Blowin’ In’ (Reductress)
Message To My Clone by Jack Handey (The American Bystander -- the Bystander, a print humor magazine, debuted this blog this week and it is well worth checking out all the writing on there.)
I Have Combination Skin: Half Human, Half Big Fat Dog by Rachel Wenitsky (Reductress -- those who attended our September show were treated to a pre-publication performance of this piece! As if you needed more reasons to come to the show.)
Re: Sweat Nothing’s 2018 Deodorant Scents (for Men and Women) By Sophie Kohn (The New Yorker)
An Old Favorite
Updates From Your Hosts and Friends of the Show
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