From Carl Reiner’s toupee to Carrie Bradshaw’s laptop, Funny Stuff: How Comedy Shaped American History explores comedy in America through the artifacts and memorabilia that have kept us in stitches.
Scott Frank is making ‘Red Harvest,’ Nabokov’s ‘Laughter in the Dark,’ and ‘The Cone Gatherers’ as Netflix announces new ‘Dept. Q’ cast.
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Was the Mad Gasser of Mattoon a collective hallucination?
In September of 1944, residents of the small Illinois town of Mattoon began reporting something that sounds straight out of a pulp magazine: a mysterious figure spraying sweet-smelling gas into their ...
Imagination is such a source of intense power, and we can use it as a starting point to create a new world. I really fiercely ...
Leah McKendrick’s romantic comedy, Voicemails for Isabelle, follows a formula as most romantic comedies do, but many key ...
Theater Resources Unlimited will present the first installment of How to Write a Musical That Works, a three-part Zoom workshop series open to writers and producers seeking feedback on works in ...
On June 24, 2026, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) facilitated the takedown, suspension, and blocking of domains that ...
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks to playwright Kenn Adams about his formula for creating or analyzing stories called the Story Spine ...
Boomer women aren't refusing to age. We're simply rejecting a lifestyle that reflects a world where women had fewer options.
Forty years ago, the NBA flipped the script and debuted a new logo for their championship series. Illustration: Demetrius Robinson / The Athletic; Photo: Mike Ehrmann / Getty Images This is a story ...
In “Thirty Recommendations for Good Writing Habits,” an essay published in 2013, the writer and translator Lydia Davis offers a cardinal rule: “work on your character.” (She happened on a variation of ...
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