Author Archive: Vanessa Newman

Humor Is Not an Official Literary Genre 

Humor Is Not an Official Literary Genre by Vanessa A. Newman, M.S. Hogwash to that, I say emphatically!  Can’t the written word engender laughter? Or would opponents argue that eliciting guffaws is simply a  function of entertainment and thus not literary in nature. Psychology Today claims laughter is fundamental, but the setting is critical. In […]