Erma Bombeck's humor: pleasure or pain?

Author(s)

Susan Marie Frontczak

Document Type

Blog

Publication Date

2-11-2019

Abstract

"There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt." (Erma Bombeck)

You'll get a chuckle out of the book title "I Lost Everything in the Post Natal Depression" if you know what the phrase "post-natal depression" refers to and if, having studied the Great Depression in high school history class, you are aware that many people lost everything they owned in the Great Depression of the 1930s. But those two pieces of awareness are a big step removed from the real thing.

Keywords

Erma Bombeck, humor writing, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop, University of Dayton

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eCommons Citation

Frontczak, Susan Marie, "Erma Bombeck's humor: pleasure or pain?" (2019). Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog. 1166.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ebww_blog/1166