Humor
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Free Fiction: The Promotion Minisode #2
As announced last week, The Promotion: A Novella is now available for sale from Amazon as an e-book, and the print version should be up very soon (i.e., in the next few days). I’m also releasing sections of the book in a series of minisodes. Enjoy! Previously in The Promotion: Minisode #1: In Which the Narrator Continue reading
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Free Fiction: The Promotion Minisode #1
As announced last week, The Promotion: A Novella is now available for sale from Amazon as an e-book, and the print version should be up very soon (i.e., in the next few days). I’m also planning to release the book for you, the readers of the Jacke Blog, in a series of minisodes. Enjoy! The Promotion Continue reading
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The Celebrated Yarn Spinner of Whatagenius County
Ben Tarnoff takes an insightful look at Mark Twain’s push to employ his humor for something deeper than mere entertainment. Mark Twain loved frontier humor, the impish wit and yeasty vernacular, its fondness for the gargantuan and the grotesque. He also understood its deeper value: not merely as entertainment but as a survival tactic. Twain Continue reading
