The Books Briefing: Humor, Mined From the Absurd
The Books Briefing: Humor, Mined From the Absurd Kate Cray © Elliott Erwitt / Magnum The world sometimes seems dark. Humor, mined from the absurd, can help us see another side of the pain. That sensibility animates the author Paul Auster’s memoir Hand to Mouth, which follows his early failures as a writer. It also powered work by Auster’s inspiration Samuel Beckett, who wrote the hilarious Watt while on the run from the Gestapo. The memoirist Sean Wilsey even remarked in a column for The Atlantic that good writers must find the funny side of the most painful situations...
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