Getting Damned Serious About Humor: How the "Outlander" Novels are a Gold Standard for Weaving Humor into an Epic

This week in the Cold, we talk about humor as a crucial element to any story that endeavors to rise above cliché. We zero-in on Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander" novels as a gold standard for tackling very serious topics like war, history, and love with a confident and unapologetic sense of humor. We look back on Shakespeare, Twain, Hemingway, Chandler, even ancient literature in order to illustrate how humor isn’t just something meant to make us feel good. It is defiant, subversive and smarter than we are. Through humor we can say things we’re too afraid to say, and speak truths that polite society won’t tolerate. Because ultimately, humor reminds us that no word or circumstance can hold power over us. You don't want to miss this one. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://victoriadougherty.wordpress.com/2018/03/16/getting-damned-serious-about-humor/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/victoria-dougherty/support