(If that last one doesn’t ring a bell, feel free to Google Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale and Nathaniel Hawthorne.) And, while we’re at it: Letters of introduction; letters of recommendation; and, ...

Humor columnist Mark Harmon says the satirist Art Buchwald loved the Watergate scandal, because there was so much bizarre material that he could get his column done in an hour and be on the tennis ...

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If I drew up a list of the most popular and productive newspaper writers of the last four decades, high on that list would be Dave Barry. He built an international reputation as a humorist, writing ...

We’ve all seen a hilarious TV scene that’s stuck with us or read a satirical essay that’s made us giggle for weeks. But have you ever wondered what it actually takes to become a comedy writer? There ...

The two of us blinked at each other. We had just swapped edits for chapter one of our latest coauthored book, You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our ...

When the iconic “Cathy” comic strip ended in the fall of 2010, the final panel bid farewell by introducing a third generation: Cathy announced that she was pregnant with a girl, and Cathy’s mother ...