Word: humority
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...through Sept. 2 are Susan Klein, renowned for her vivid reminiscences of growing up on Martha's Vineyard in the '50s; Diane Ferlatte, whose multicultural repertoire includes folklore from Africa and the American South; and Donald Davis, who immortalizes friends and neighbors from his Appalachian boyhood with homespun humor...
...voice that does for Silicon Valley and Alley what CNBC did for Wall Street. Knowing what you're talking about counts for a lot in a world of shrieking dotcom hype, and the Standard cut through the noise with speed, exuberance, minimal jargon and a dash of self-deprecating humor. Advertisers ate it up, and the Standard got very fat very quickly. Issue No. 1 had an anemic 25 pages of ads; now they frequently top 200. Ad revenues rose from less than $2 million in '98 to more than $26 million in '99. "Our plan was to be profitable...
Hanging Up has the perky pace and the arch attitudes of a comedy. Everyone looks as if he or she is about to deliver a funny line. It's only after 20 expectant minutes or so that you realize you haven't laughed yet. And that the hope for humor--as opposed to frazzle, which soon gives way to frenzy--is growing dimmer...
...might guess, this book does not admit much humor--it is, after all, an account of Daru's slow and painful descent from yuppie respectability to scumminess. But Moth Smoke never gets cumbersome, and even at its most heavy, the narrators are a sympathetic and colorful bunch. They are all, by Pakistani standards, moneyed and elite. (Even Daru, the novel's hard-luck case, has a servant boy.) Most everyone has a sport-utility vehicle to negotiate the rotting streets of Lahore, a city without enough public works to take care of its roads. Indeed, the novel at times seems...
Tilby and Forbis started with human characters but ultimately decided to make their main characters animals in order to add humor and empathy to the story...