Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Books are influential. They have the power to make you cry, dream, escape reality and catapult you on new adventures. Books also ...

Scholastic research shows that humor in books is the top characteristic kids look for when making their reading selections. According to the Scholastic Kids & Family Reading Report, more than 50 ...

I am concerned about how my book club scheduled for next Thursday at the time of this writing is going to go. Given that I’ve been telling people what to read for better than a decade in these pages, ...

Author Gloria Squitiro chatted about her humor book “C’mon Funk Move Your Ass: How a Demure Little Wife Made Her Husband a Big City Mayor.” Aside from being a writer, she is a former First Lady of ...

Chris Duffy is a comedian, but he'd reached a point in his life where he'd nearly forgotten the joy of laughter. CHRIS DUFFY: I was teaching at a school, and I was dealing with a lot of really tough ...

At first blush Judd Apatow’s “Comedy Nerd” (Random House, 576 pages, $50) may seem like a hopeless vanity project, but this handsome, visceral memoir is satisfying on many levels. First and foremost, ...

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Laugh your rear-end off. Laugh yourself silly, until you almost cried, it’s the best medicine. Had you rolling in the aisles, holding your sides coz they hurt. When something’s funny, you know it but ...