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  2. Michael Cart - Wikipedia

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    Michael Cart, born on March 6, 1941, in Logansport, Indiana, United States is an author and expert in children's and young adult literature.He earned a degree in Library Science from Columbia University in 1964 and a degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

  3. Mark Twain's Library of Humor - Wikipedia

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    The book was published in 1888 by Charles L. Webster & Company. When that firm collapsed in 1894, Harper and Brothers took over the publication of all of Clemens' work. The Library of Humor was a valuable piece, containing many copyrighted works by many distinguished and popular authors. Secretary of Harper and Brothers Frederick A. Duneka had ...

  4. The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer

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    In a review for Los Angeles Review of Books, Dan Hassler-Forest wrote that the title story of The Memory Librarian is a "play on Philip K. Dick’s thematic obsession with anxieties about the reliability of memories." In addition, Monáe's exploration of race and sexuality as "markers of social deviance" are a method to explore the way in which ...

  5. Fun Fare; a Treasury of Reader's Digest Wit and Humor

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    Fun Fare; a Treasury of Reader's Digest Wit and Humor is a best-selling publication of Reader's Digest. The original 1949 edition was produced in collaboration with Bob Hope . [ 1 ] The original edition of Fun Fare comprised 300 pages of short comic stories illustrated in color by cartoonist Robert James Day , signed on the cover as "Robt Day".

  6. List of humor magazines - Wikipedia

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    An edition of American humor magazine Crazy, Man, Crazy from 1956. A humor magazine is a magazine specifically designed to deliver humorous content to its readership. These publications often offer satire and parody, but some also put an emphasis on cartoons, caricature, absurdity, one-liners, witty aphorisms, surrealism, neuroticism, gelotology, emotion-regulating humor, and/or humorous essays.

  7. List of humorists - Wikipedia

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    A humorist (American English) or humourist (British English) is an intellectual who uses humor in writing or public speaking. [1] Humorists are distinct from comedians, who are show business entertainers whose business is to make an audience laugh, though it is possible for some persons to occupy both roles in the course of their careers.

  8. Librarians in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The Library is staffed by Zelda Schiff, a prim, glasses-and-cardigan-wearing librarian whose biggest concern is the possible defacement of library books. Uniquely, when creating the Australian miniseries The Librarians , co-producers and writers Wayne Hope and Robyn Butler consulted with real librarians for research and took their advice to ...

  9. It's Kind of a Funny Story - Wikipedia

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    The book is widely celebrated, with it being selected in 2007 by the American Library Association for its list of the Best Books for Young Adults. It was also met with critical applause from multiple publications including the New York Times , who described it as—"Insightful and utterly authentic...this is an important book."