Biting Humor: More Than Just a Tension Builder
How targeted jokes can help resolve the conflict they create.
This is a horror story — no two ways about it.
As a parent, Nafissa Thompson-Spires’ epistolary short story “Belles Lettres” has kept me up at night. The story, from her award-winning collection, Heads of The Colored People, follows an increasingly rancorous letter-writing battle between the parents of children in a California primary school. If that do…
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