September 23, 2026
How To Write Satire – The Satirical Canon: Works Every Student Must Know — An essential reading list of texts that define the satirical tradition, with scholarly context and analytical guidance
How To Write Satire – Deadpan Delivery: The Art of Saying Absurd Things with a Straight Face — How tonal control transforms the ordinary into the satirically extraordinary
How To Write Satire – Ancient Satire: Aristophanes, Juvenal, and the Classical Tradition — A survey of satirical writing in ancient Greece and Rome, from Old Comedy to verse satire and the formation of the genre
How To Write Satire – Billy Connolly: The Comedy of Storytelling, Chaos, and Human Truth — When a Joke Becomes a Journey Through the Scottish Soul