Your Caption Has Been Selected
More Than Anyone Could Possibly Want to Know About The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest
$72.85
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
10 September 2024
Summary
Every week, tens of thousands of people enter The New Yorker cartoon caption contest in hopes of seeing their name and winning caption in print. But only one person has taken the prize an astounding fifteen times and counting: Lawrence Wood, also known as the Ken Jennings of caption writing.
What’s Wood’s secret? What makes a caption good or bad? How do you beat the crowd? And most importantly, what makes a caption funny?
Packed with over 150 of the magazine’s best cartoons an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781250333407 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1250333407 |
| Author: | Lawrence Wood |
| Publisher: | St Martin's Press |
| Imprint: | St Martin's Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 10 September 2024 |
| Weight: | 757g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 222mm x 296mm |
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Critics Review
“An appealing book about a surprisingly difficult task: writing a good cartoon caption. Entertaining … throughout, the author is charmingly eccentric and pleasing.” –Kirkus Reviews
“Diverting … New Yorker readers will get a kick out of this.” –Publishers Weekly
“Witty.” –Christian Science Monitor
Lawrence Wood
LAWRENCE WOOD has been a finalist in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest a record-setting fifteen times and won eight contests. For more than twenty years he was a lecturer in law at the University of Chicago Law School, where he taught a class on housing and poverty law that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dismissed as a “waste of time.” Lawrence is currently the supervising attorney at Legal Action Chicago.
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