Overhead at Starbucks on a Friday afternoon.

https://julievick.substack.com/p/humor-writing-resources
https://caitlinkunkel.com/teachingandspeaking
https://www.elissabassist.com/classes
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https://www.secondcity.com/classes/chicago/online-classes
Mine Your Life for Funny Ideas Generative Zoom Seminar with Caitlin Kunkel on Saturday, June 6th, 2026
https://www.brentforrester.com
https://www.writersatwork.com.sg
https://www.improv.sg
https://tetw.org/

https://genius.com/Nora-ephron-a-few-words-about-breasts-annotated

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/22/the-nora-ephron-we-forget

Unfortunately, after Ephron moved to Manhattan, in 1962, she discovered that she was far from the only lady at the table to have a “Dorothy Parker problem.” Every woman with a typewriter and an inflated sense of confidence believed that she was going to be crowned the next Miss One-Liner. To make matters worse, once Ephron started reading deep into Parker’s work, she found much of it to be corny and maudlin and, to use Ephron’s withering words, “so embarrassing.” Reluctantly, she let her childhood hero go. “Before one looked too hard at it,” Ephron wrote, “it was a lovely myth.”