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Satire and Comic Relief in 2009: Dispatches from the Brooklyn Book Festival Part II
Shteyngart was born in Russia, but soon after came to the United States where, "as a young man, I was sentenced to eight years in Hebrew School for some crime I didn’t commit.” He recounted with glee the moment when humor changed his life in America: “Exodus became Sexodus,” he recalled mischievously, “I had... »
PEN Author Spotlight: Morten Ramsland’s “Doghead” Mixes Highbrow, Lowbrow Humor In Multigenerational Family Saga
“Somewhere in Eastern Germany, my grandfather Askild is running across an open plain. The Germans are after him, and he has lost one of his shoes; it’s freezing. The half moon casts a pale glow over the landscape, transforming it into a ploughed field with frozen soldiers partly buried in mud….My father has not... »