A Newsletter of Humorous Writing: End of 2022 Edition
A Newsletter of Humorous Writing
A Newsletter of Humorous Writing
Hello and welcome to A Newsletter of Humorous Writing, End of 2022 Edition, a roundup of the year's finest short humor pieces and funny articles, and a celebration of the fantastic writers who wrote them.
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.
Think You Got What It Takes to Join Our Gang, the Crabapple Boys?! by Alex Baia (Points in Case)
Write What You Know™! We ALL Have Tales to Tell! by Elise Seyfried (The Belladonna)
Excerpts From The House of Girth, Edith Wharton’s 1905 Novel About Powerlifting by Seth Rubin (McSweeney’s)
The Protagonist’s Best Friend Would Like to Stop Having to Shoehorn So Much Exposition into Their Dialogue by Simon Henriques (McSweeney’s)
Why I Removed All the Exclamation Points From My Emails and Replaced Them With Links to Vaguely Threatening Images by McKayley Gourley (Reductress)
Our Hybrid Work Policy Requires You in the Office Twice a Week to Battle the Bog Man by Devin Wallace and Emily Claypoole (McSweeney’s)
I Actually Do Have Time for Your Sick Little Games by DC Pierson (Points in Case)
I Know What It Sounds Like But My Liege Lord Just Happens To Be Exemplary In Form and Countenance by Daniel Lavery (The Chatner)
This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Two of Us, Partner—So I’ll Just Leave Then. Enjoy the Town! by James Knapp (McSweeney’s)
The Obsessive’s Guide to Dipping Your French Fries by Lillian Stone (The Takeout)
Senseless Instant Pot Recipes For The Deranged Home Chef by Laura Bartel (Slackjaw)
Boy, That Guy, I Tell You by Lillie Franks (Points in Case)
Health Inspector’s Notes from the Fisher-Price Kitchen in Miss Carol’s Preschool Classroom by Sari Beliak (McSweeney’s)
Reviews of New Food: Buffalo Wild Wings’ Legendary Long Island by Evan Allgood (McSweeney’s)
Famous Chess Matches, If Some of the Players Were Cheating Using Vibrating Anal Beads, a Thing That Is Allegedly Happening in the Chess World and Is Not Something Random That I Made Up by Alexandra Petri (McSweeney’s)
Some Writing That Luke and James Are Proud Of
James published a few things he's proud of this year, including An Excerpt from a Fantasy Novel Written By an Author Who Thinks He Made Up Doors (McSweeney's), and a piece co-written with the great Ed Park, I’m Starting to Realize I’m Watching The Bear (1988) Not The Bear (2022) (McSweeney's).
Luke's proud of his pieces Frustrating Things That Happen After You Moisturize Your Hands (The New Yorker) and The Secret to Great Writing Is Taking Dozens of Showers a Day (McSweeney's). (He's also very proud of all the great writing his students have been doing in his workshops.)
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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