Humor
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Gutter Space # 18: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, by Zach Weiner
Gutter Space # 18 by Leslie Salas Utilizing Humor to Teach: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, by Zach Weiner I’m a big fan of comics that like to teach random facts in unconventional and humorous ways. Comics like xkcd fit this bill, but so does Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, a daily webcomic by Zach Weiner. While… Continue reading
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Gutter Space #8: Interactivity in Randall Munroe’s XKCD
Gutter Space #8 by Leslie Salas Interactivity in Randall Munroe’s XKCD I’ve already talked about xkcd, “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language,” before, but I think Randall Munroe merits a second post for comic 1110, “Click and Drag.” Regular readers of xkcd will tell you that xkcd is known for a certain level… Continue reading
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Gutter Space #5: Less is More in E Horne & J Comeau’s A Softer World
Gutter Space #5 by Leslie Salas Less is More in E Horne & J Comeau’s A Softer World A Softer World, written by Joey Comeau and photographed/designed by Emily Horne, is a webcomic that is “sometimes … sad or harsh … in the tradition of George Simenon’s ‘romans durs’ (or ‘hard novels’).” Each of these comics… Continue reading
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Episode 50: David Sedaris
Episode 50 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I talk to the memoir writer David Sedaris, plus Pamela Skjolsvik discusses David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day, and Adriana Lecuona writes about Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Those Who Leave Omelas.” Texts… Continue reading
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