A Newsletter of Humorous Writing #2
A Newsletter of Humorous Writing
A Newsletter of Humorous Writing
For September 28-October 4, 2017, a roundup of the week's
finest prose humor and prose humor-related news.
Hello and welcome to a Newsletter of Humorous Writing, the email propaganda arm of the acclaimed humorous readings show, An Evening of Humorous Readings. We got great feedback about last week's letter, including, "This letter is not tiny at all! I demand a refund." Rest assured, we're working on making the letter even tinier. In the meantime, here's some writing we enjoyed this week, along with news about ourselves and friends of the show.
What We Enjoyed This Week
An Old Favorite
The Night the Bed Fell by James Thurber (The New Yorker)
At the beginning of this piece, Thurber mentions that it "makes a better recitation... than it does a piece of writing." We'd like to take this opportunity to extend an invitation to the ghost of James Thurber to be a guest on the show any time he likes.
Updates From Your Hosts and Friends of the Show
This week, Luke and Lucas Adams (a Friend of the Show) pitched some Sequels to "The Fly" on the New Yorker's Daily Shouts blog, while over at Cafe.com, James sensibly proposed that America should quit electing golfers.
News About The Next Show
Our next show will be October 16th at 8PM at HiFi Bar (169 Ave. A)! We're still booking guests, but we should have the full lineup for you by the time we send out next week's letter! If you don't want to wait that long, feel free to furiously refresh our website to see if there's any news.
Did we miss a piece you loved? Did you love a piece we mentioned? Let us know!
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See you next week!
@brianagler, @lukevburns, & @jamesfolta
See you next week!
@lukevburns & @jamesfolta
We started this newsletter with our dear friend Brian Agler, and we want it to always honor his memory and his love of all things humorous. You can find our newsletter tribute to Brian here.
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