Literary Laughs: Alison Lurie and Bill Savage
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Channel: Chicago Humanities · 2010 · Education
http://chicagohumanities.org - See more Chicago Humanities Festival events. What does your laughter say about you? Alison Lurie, author of nine novels including the Pulitzer Prizewinning Foreign Affairs, and recently retired from the English department at Cornell University, discusses humor in literature and how her own satiric fiction has frequently taken aim at campus life, with Bill Savage, senior lecturer in English at Northwestern University. They share examples and discuss why—and for whom—they are funny.
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