Recorded on October 17, 2009.
What does your laughter say about you? Alison Lurie, author of nine novels including the Pulitzer Prize–winning 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.
Generously sponsored by Paula R. Kahn
Pictured: Alison Lurie.
