Don't let the name fool you, sometimes grouchy can be funny. Novelists, poets, and writers of all ilk and ink from all over the New Orleans metro area recently gathered at Mac's on Boston Street in ...

The stories and writers of a region can work to define that region. The honest and perceptive eye of an observant writer will expose those on the outside to an unknown world, and after the reader ...

Alfred University Professor of English Juliana Gray’s satirical piece “Escape Room Challenge: Your European Airbnb” was published recently in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, a leading online literary ...

There is a feature that has often marked the dust jackets of V.S. Naipaul’s books. We are first given some perfunctory details about the writer’s birth in Trinidad, his education at University College ...

Much of the best literary humor, from the time of Shakespeare down to the New Yorker's Dorothy Parker, is based on word play or puns. Oscar Wilde called puns "the lowest form of humor," and then he ...

In 2004, Modernism/Modernity, The Johns Hopkins University Press magazine, published a review of the works of David Foster Wallace. It was titled “An Undeniably Controversial and Perhaps Even ...

Early in my career, I taught a delightful class on the post–World War II American novel. Since we met once a week, and since these were graduate-level readers, the course consisted mostly of robust ...