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How to Write for McSweeney’s [Jeff Bender]

All Levels | This four-week course examines the key elements of writing brief, McSweeney’s-style pieces. It also explores publication options within the expanding humor-writing market. You might be encouraged to know that humor sites are surprisingly bookish and produce work that mixes the high- and the low-brow, as evidenced by popular headlines “Our Daughter Isn’t a Selfish Brat; Your Son Just Hasn’t Read Atlas Shrugged” and “Famous Writers’ Cosmo Tips.”