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Jack Gantos: Slobberific

Jack Gan­tos: Slob­berific “Some­times when you stare out the win­dow it’s like watch­ing the movies in your mind.” —Jack Gan­tos. And some­times, you make read­ers laugh so hard, they slob­ber them­selves, and while they’re laugh­ing, you sneak in a nugget of pro­fun­dity and insight that once they’ve stopped laugh­ing and cleaned them­selves up, they say, …

January 27, 2012 – 9:54 am | By thunderchikin | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Bringing the Funny to the Medal Round

Almost as much as Rod­ney Dan­ger­field is quoted for his “No respect” catch­phrase, Edmund Kean,* the famous Shake­spearean actor, is often quoted as say­ing on his deathbed, “Dying is easy; com­edy is hard.” **  Our finest actors are those who can play com­edy, which requires more sub­tly and finesse than dra­matic act­ing. The same is true of writ­ing.  It’s easy to …

January 24, 2012 – 10:06 am | By thunderchikin | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , | Comments Off