The Conditional Joke, a Tool for Fiction Writers
by Kate Kaplan
“Jokes can deliver information in a way that gets through to readers.” Kate Kaplan on the work of “conditional jokes” in Cynthia Ozick, Ana Menéndez, and Paul Beatty.
Kate Kaplan has published short fiction in a number of literary magazines, including the New England Review, the Santa Monica Review, and the Tampa Review. She’s been a Bread Loaf scholar and a scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and is a graduate of Warren Wilson’s MFA program.
“Jokes can deliver information in a way that gets through to readers.” Kate Kaplan on the work of “conditional jokes” in Cynthia Ozick, Ana Menéndez, and Paul Beatty.
