Word: humorists
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When we keep this in mind, writer Mark O'Donnell emerges as a true gift. A humorist and playwright, O'Donnell has mastered the art of conveying the bittersweet. In his first novel, Getting Over Homer, O'Donnell wryly traced a twin's failing quest to find a bond similar to the one he shared with his sibling. In his second novel, Let Nothing You Dismay (Knopf; 193 pages; $22), O'Donnell is once again obsessed with a young man's search for wholeness, and here too the author's witticisms flow felicitously...
...famous columnist who lifts gags from someone else's book, then lies about having read it? Answer: Suspend him for two months without pay, then hope everyone's forgotten about it when he comes back. The Boston Globe told this rib-tickler Tuesday when it announced that top humorist Mike Barnicle, who reprinted loosely-disguised George Carlin quips from the bestselling book "Brain Droppings," would not be fired after all. Declaring that "the punishment did not fit the crime," editor Matthew Storin has withdrawn his demand for Barnicle's resignation, and replaced it with this two-month wrist-slap. Curiously...
George A. Plimpton '48 is an acclaimed writer and humorist, perhaps best-known for Paper Lion, a book describing his brief foray as a member of the Detroit Lions. He is also the editor of The Paris Review. While an undergraduate, he enjoyed mocking The Crimson as a member of a semi-secret Bow Street social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
Long ago, the humorist Finley Peter Dunne ("Mr. Dooley") described being Vice President of the U.S. as "a sort of disgrace, like writing anonymous letters." Talking to oneself is cousin to that. It seems a Richard Nixon sort of thing to do. If Nixon did not actually talk to himself, he gave the impression that he did. For all his reputation for covertness, Nixon's real problem was his inability to conceal the darkly busy workings of his mind--the wheels turning, the eyes darting. You could almost hear him talking--a subliminal tape--even if the words were...
...editors from such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Business Week and TIME (former chief political correspondent Michael Kramer is Brill's No. 2 editor). Washington Post media critic (and author of Spin Cycle) Howard Kurtz will be a contributor, as will former FCC chairman Reed Hundt and humorist Calvin Trillin. Brill has even hired an in-house ombudsman: former New York Times editor Bill Kovach, head of the Nieman journalism fellowships at Harvard, will critique Content's own articles...