Short Prose
David’s been a featured speaker at the San Miguel Writers’ Literary Festival,
the Willamette Writers Conference, and was named the Erma Bombeck
Writers’ Workshop Humor Writer of the Month (May 2022, since you asked).
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Mr. Misch has been writing comic prose since he was 5 and getting
rejected by The New Yorker – sometimes with personal letters! –
since he was 22. Here are three of the most distinguished rejectees…
“Henri Doupier: Man or Myth? Or Man?”
(Also in the Sherman Oaks Review of Books.)
“Alumni Notes”
(Appears in abridged form in “May
Contain Nuts” from HarperCollins.)
“Little-Known Points of Law”
(Excerpt appears in Issue 1 of The Amer-
ican Bystander, available in print only.)
During his Presidential campaign, Mitt Romney
said Michigan trees were “the right height.”
Here, with a heartfelt rebuttal, is a tree.
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I have essays in three anthologies…
“The F-Word” in “Faith: Believers, Agnostics
and Atheists Confront the Big Questions”
(Simon & Schuster/ Beyond Words)
Click here for excerpt.
“Ha!/Aah!: The Painful Relationship
Between Humor and Horror”
(“Laugh-out-loud” – Cinepunx)
in “Horrific Humor and the Moment of Droll
Grimness in Cinema: Sidesplitting sLaughter”
(Rowman & Littlefield); click here for the start.
Click here to buy ($90 – but for you, 30% off).
“It’s Complicated,” the foreword for “The Films
of Robin Williams: Critical Essays” (McFarland)
Click here for the start.
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I wrote 26 or so (okay, exactly 26) columns for HuffPost, including, during the
“Ground Zero mosque” controversy, my fool-proof plan to terror-proof America.
I researched “The Omicron Variants” in The Weekly Humorist.
Examining Louis CK before the fact, I revealed Comedy’s Authentic Lies in Vulture.
And I discussed “The Medieval Origins of April Fools’ Day” for L.A. Weekly.
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An interview about writing, screen and otherwise, in Script Magazine.
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