I don’t think the publishing gods huddled in a bland conference room in some NYC skyscraper and said, let’s drain all the joy out of literature and see what happens. But somewhere between the rise of prestige television, the literary trauma memoir, and BookTok’s well-documented obsession with books that make you cry in public, funny stopped being a seri…
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I don’t think the publishing gods huddled in a bland conference room in some NYC skyscraper and said, let’s drain all the joy out of literature and see what happens. But somewhere between the rise of prestige television, the literary trauma memoir, and BookTok’s well-documented obsession with books that make you cry in public, funny stopped being a serious category.
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