What is a TV “comedy” in 2023? In an era of blurred genres, it’s not so cut and dry anymore. Opening Variety’s “A Night in the Writer’s Room,” Variety’s Michael Schneider asked the nine comedy writers ...

If there ever was a time we all could use a good laugh, it’s now — as, all around us, the world seems to be on fire literally, and figuratively. For this special edition of “Bookmarked: Under the ...

We have lined up dozens of remarkable authors, bloggers and humorists to review and rank the 2023 entries in A Hotel Room of One’s Own: The Erma Bombeck | Anna Lefler Humorist-in-Residence Program.

Journalist, author and comedian Dave Barry has made a name for himself asking the important questions. Questions like: "How does the son of a Presbyterian minister wind up winning a Pulitzer Prize for ...

Gina Ramsey, a humor writer from Superior, has a book out Tuesday called “Burnt Gloveboxes: Embracing Life When It Goes Up in Flames.” It chronicles some of the “misadventures” of Ramsey’s life, with ...

The University of Dayton’s Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop is accepting applications for its April 4-6, 2024 Humorist-in-Residence Program. The workshop is offering two emerging humor writers the ...

“Two words: clean towels,” one writer wrote in a pitch to be selected for A Hotel Room of One’s Own: The Erma Bombeck | Anna Lefler Humorist-in-Residence Program. The University of Dayton’s Erma ...

Novelist, television writer and producer Larry Doyle talks about his new book, “Deliriously Happy and Other Bad Thoughts,” at the Brookline Booksmith on Wednesday. GRACE DONNELLY/DFP STAFF Former “The ...

When Kristina Schulz was a child growing up in Kettering, she vividly remembers reading the Journal Herald in the morning while she ate her Cheerios and waited for the school bus to arrive. “I would ...