Last Chance to Register for Humor Writing Course at Sarah Lawrence College; Classes Start Tomorrow

A humor-writing course bows in tomorrow, July 8, at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville. Five two-hour sessions will be held on Tuesdays from July 8 to August 5 beginning at 11 a.m. each day. 

Dan Zevin, the instructor and a Larchmont resident, is the winner of the 2013 James Thurber Award For American Humor for his book Dan Gets a Minivan. 

During the course, students will read and discuss the work of James Thurber, P.G. Wodehouse, Dorothy Parker, Nora Ephron, David Sedaris, Dave Barry and other humorists. 

Assignments will cover the comic essay, the comic novel or short story, the topical news column, and the parody piece. In-class exercises are planned to overcome preconceived notions of “serious” prose and to help find "the funny" in characters, dialogue, and situations the students create. 

Zevin's work has appeared in many print and digital publications including The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, McSweeney's, The Los Angeles Times, and Salon.com. He has taught at New York University, Fordham University, and Emerson College as well as the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. He received a degree in journalism from NYU.

The fee to take the course is $300. For more information or to register, click here or call 914-395-2205.