Her fiction, quirky and funny, examines life from the inside out.
The evening-length work, which had its New York premiere this week, was called an opera, but in fact it was a series of set pieces and skits -- some abstract and beautiful, some very funny -- examining different aspects of the term voice: the voices you hear in your head, the recorded voices of answering machines, the voices of musical instruments and so on.
This mordantly funny novel examines the life of Sir Edward Feathers, a desiccated barrister known to colleagues and friends as Old Filth (the nickname stands for "Failed in London Try Hong Kong").
The present study utilized an event-related fMRI design incorporating three conditions (unfunny, nonsensical and funny) to examine distinct brain regions associated with the detection and resolution of incongruities.
He didn't mean to be so funny (Globe and Mail): Examining Carl Hiaasen's crime-writing careerSave the last dance (Arts Desk): Two top choreographers, Merce Cunningham and Pina Bausch, died last year.
In March it includes articles examining the phenomenon of preteen fashion icons and a funny essay by Mindy Kaling about the horrors of dressing for a red carpet.
Exploring terrain charted by Richard Ford and Raymond Carver, the stories in this first collection are confident and ruefully funny as they examine what might be called post-postmacho manhood.
One of the most interesting things about Outlander, which is adapted by Ron Moore from Diana Gabaldon's best-selling novels, is the frank and frequently funny way it examines female desire.
Let's examine "funny" T-shirts that will guarantee you never get laid.
So often anything posted online that is funny, personal, heartfelt, examines the minutiae of our existence, gets into the subtleties of our popular culture, tells us something about our humanity is met with a loud screaming "WHAT IS THIS?
Others are angry, funny, obsessive notes to self, examining race, racism, her own racism, her rejection of it and her dependence on it from many angles and various personas.
