A Newsletter of Humorous Writing: End of 2021 Edition
A Newsletter of Humorous Writing
A Newsletter of Humorous Writing
For 2021, a roundup of the week's finest prose 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. 2021: Good riddance.
What We Enjoyed This Year (In Chronological Order)
We've spent many long nights around the End of Year List Decision Table (EoYLDT) here at Humorous Readings Headquarters (HRHQ), rereading the pieces we liked this year and deciding on fifteen of our favorites. It's an impossible task; there were so many great pieces this year, and you can still read all of them in our Vault of Humorous Writing (VoHW), which is just teeming with great short humor. We hope you enjoyed these as much as we did, and thanks for reading.
The Art of Conversation For Eloquent Sophisticates by Sean McGowan (McSweeney's)
Malala Makes Note Before Job Interview To Bring Up Nobel Peace Prize by Khaleel Rahman (Flexx)
This Trojan Horse Is A Family, So Maybe Stop Having So Much Attitude About Being In the Butt Part by Rima Parikh (Widget)
Trailer for a Prequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” by Ellis Rosen (The New Yorker)
Who Wore It Better: A Professionally Styled Model, or Me? by Hannah Matthews (McSweeney's)
Please, the Only Way I Can Parallel Park Is If You Constantly Stare at Me by Julien Perez (McSweeney's)
Fun facts about fun guys by Janelle Shane (AI Weirdness)
If I Moved Back to My Hometown, As Envisioned by My Parents by Emily Delaney (McSweeney's)
Baby Shoes, Never Worn: The Twenty-Episode Podcast by Mike Lacher (McSweeney's)
Signs Your Skeleton is Tired of Bringing You Along Everywhere by Dima Kronfeld (Reductress)
Clif Builders Chocolate Peanut Butter Flavor Minis by Kelly Zentgraf (McSweeney's)
Fourteen Short Obituaries for the Modern Woman by Auguste White (McSweeney’s)
Advice-Seeking Alternatives To “I’d Love To Pick Your Brain” by Michelle Spies (Slackjaw)
Jim, We Need to Talk About the Serial Copy-and-Pasting in Your Work Emails by Janet Manley (McSweeney's)
A Eulogy for Tom Brady (1977-2296) by Jared Eimicke (Points in Case)
Some Writing By Your Hosts That They Are Proud Of
An Atlas of Valentine's Day Island, Diary of the Guy Who Drove the Trojan Horse Back from Troy, and Various "Mentions" by James Folta (Self-published, The New Yorker, and The Drift)
A Rash and Bloody Deed (A Postcard Game) by Luke Burns (And if you'd like a hard copy of the game, let Luke know--there are still a few left!)
And together, James and Luke wrote Space Council, which will hopefully be back soon.
See you next year!
@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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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.
This newsletter is free, but if you enjoy it and want to support the work we do putting it together, you can subscribe to our paid tier, or you can send us a tip here. Any amount is greatly appreciated, and 1/3rd of each donation will go to Stand Up To Cancer.
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