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Prompt #121: Writing Humor

Prompt #121: Writing Humor

What's so funny?

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Suzanne Roberts
Aug 02, 2024
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Hi Friends,

After the publication of my collection of essays Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties, I was asked in an interview why I used humor when writing about such difficult subjects, like the death of loved ones. I blurted out that death IS funny, and the interviewer was taken aback, but I explained that so much of humor relies on…

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