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Lawrence Wood

Your Caption Has Been Selected

More Than Anyone Could Possibly Want to Know About The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest

Lawrence Wood

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St Martin's Press
10 September 2024

Popular culture; Humour; Cartoons & comic strips; Humour collections & anthologies

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 and captions and featuring a foreword by the contest's creator Bob Mankoff, Your Caption Has Been Selected takes you behind the scenes of the contest, its history, the way judging works, and more. Lawrence divulges his own writing process and shows readers how to generate the perfect string of words to get a laugh. Zippy and practical, this book is perfect for fans of the contest, readers interested in how humor works, and anyone who dreams of the day they receive the letter that ""your caption has been selected.""

By: Lawrence Wood
Imprint: St Martin's Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 217mm, Width: 193mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 752g
ISBN: 9781250333407
ISBN 10: 1250333407
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 10 September 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Your Caption Has Been Selected: More Than Anyone Could Possibly Want to Know About The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest

"""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"